Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it"

Sue Johanson, Writer

"I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities"

William Labov, Writer

"However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects"

William Labov, Writer

"And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on"

William Labov, Writer

"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something"

George Woodcock, Writer

"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world"

Jimmy Wales, Businessman

"I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world, and not just to people who have broadband"

Jimmy Wales, Businessman

"Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!"

Comte de Lautreamont, Poet

"The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world"

Roger Ascham, Writer

"I think we all have a need to know what we do not need to know"

William Safire, Author

"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long"

Walker Evans, Photographer

"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world"

William Shenstone, Poet

"With what dope I got, I think it fills me in pretty well"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"Eureka! - I have found it!"

Archimedes, Mathematician

"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic"

Larry McMurtry, Writer

"Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season, which no man can hasten or retard"

Janos Bolyai, Mathematician

"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education"

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor

"If you don't know about it, you can't get it"

Sue Johanson, Writer

"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends"

Kenneth Anger, Author

"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight"

William Safire, Author

"Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so"

William Labov, Writer

"Without history, we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born"

Donald Kagan, Historian

"American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself"

J. Irwin Miller, Businessman

"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence"

George Woodcock, Writer

"You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask"

Samantha Bee, Comedian

"For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese"

Andy Lau, Actor

"We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... It demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress"

Li Ka Shing, Businessman

"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"I think it's good to meet smart people and talk"

Ron Silver, Actor

"It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot"

Edmond About, Novelist

"At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France"

Karen Armstrong, Writer

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