Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions"

Felix Klein, Mathematician

"There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker"

Millicent Fawcett, Activist

"Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail, so let me not comment on that too much"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will, if possible, be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th century would have gone to war to possess"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory"

James Tobin, Economist

"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things"

Ed Harris, Actor

"A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination"

Alison Krauss, Musician

"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed"

Jack Vance, Author

"I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e., perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use"

Anna C. Brackett, Educator

"We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent"

Bob Livingston, Politician

"I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation"

Chuck Jones, Director

"Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them"

Anne Wilson Schaef, Writer

"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it"

Frances Wright, Writer

"If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance"

Frances Wright, Writer

"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction, understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers"

Frances Wright, Writer

"I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart!"

Nicole Polizzi, Celebrity

"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them"

Huston Smith, Theologian

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