Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar"

William Drummond

"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. The unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity"

Vartan Gregorian, Educator

"Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city"

Meir Kahane, Clergyman

"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"I don't have a strong interest in history"

Larry Niven, Writer

"While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything"

Jack Vance, Author

"Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact must be considered"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"I become kind of obsessive about research"

James Franco, Actor

"That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds"

Paul D. Boyer, Scientist

"In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'"

John Tuley

"We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about"

William Stafford, Poet

"No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely"

Mary Leakey, Scientist

"In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department"

Paul D. Boyer, Scientist

"Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence"

Treat Williams, Actor

"What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more"

William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history"

Harry Reid, Politician

"Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me, how would I know?"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe"

Kelly Miller, Sociologist

"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"Every year, thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Without a knowledge of mythology, much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"At the last census, it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"I would like to enlighten people"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"On the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology"

Gilbert White, Scientist

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