Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil"

James Smithson, Scientist

"Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite"

Barbara Smith, Activist

"The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption"

Robert Trout, Journalist

"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century"

Louis Leakey, Scientist

"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers, we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest"

Jeff Sessions, Politician

"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing"

Bruce Sterling, Writer

"I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one"

John Sherman Cooper, Politician

"Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge"

William Hurt, Actor

"We stand in the shadow of Jefferson, who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island"

Lactantius, Author

"So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read"

Hannah More, Writer

"The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge"

William Bligh, Soldier

"Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word"

Peter Gay, Historian

"Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public"

Charles Vest, Educator

"Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically"

Peter Gay, Historian

"The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation"

Robert M. Hutchins, Educator

"Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that"

Gillian Anderson, Actress

"Sex education has to do with what's in people's head"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"I am a fan of history"

Tom T. Hall, Musician

"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King"

Howard Carter, Scientist

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