Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing"

James Newman, Astronaut

"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows"

George Gurdjieff, Philosopher

"History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion"

Eva Herzigova, Model

"The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America"

David Ben-Gurion, Statesman

"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day"

Ron Chernow, Author

"The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps"

Suzanne Somers, Actress

"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man!"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on Earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"I just wondered how things were put together"

Claude Shannon, Mathematician

"You know more than you think you do"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before"

Thorstein Veblen, Economist

"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual, they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge"

Brad Sherman, Politician

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