Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov"

Howard Carter, Scientist

"We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition, whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned"

Kenneth Scott Latourette, Historian

"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... My sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers"

Heinrich Schliemann, Scientist

"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts!"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio"

Kenneth Blackwell, Politician

"Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - Educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance"

Joy Page, Actress

"It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us"

David Krumholtz, Actor

"Knowledge is ancient error, reflecting on its youth"

Francis Picabia, Artist

"I'm big on research"

James L. Brooks, Producer

"All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself"

Howard Carter, Scientist

"I think well-read people - the world is open to them"

Avi Arad, Businessman

"For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"The Preparatory Commission held a total of four sessions, the last of which took place just under two years after its creation, from 31 January to 14 February 1967"

Alfonso G. Robles, Diplomat

"The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture"

Bernard Pivot, Journalist

"But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage; and the metaphysical or abstract stage"

Auguste Comte, Sociologist

"You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules"

Bernard Pivot, Journalist

"I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"I wonder whether, if I had an education, I should have been more or less a fool that I am?"

Alice James, Writer

"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre, the soil of that land, takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost"

Julien Benda, Philosopher

"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them"

Henry Bolingbroke, Royalty

"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left, file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge"

B. H. Liddell Hart, Historian

"For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future"

Francois Jacob, Scientist

"You can hit buildings and facilities but not knowledge and will"

Abbas Araghchi, Diplomat

"Ms Finnbogadottir qualified languages as "humanity's most precious and fragile treasures""

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President

"If they disappear, so will important knowledge. Such as knowledge of the land and environment. And memories will disappear. The language is a treasure chest for memories"

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President

"The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you don't even know an answer to the question like [naming all the Spokane Valley High School Mascots] means you don't even know the district. How can you represent the district if you don't even know it?"

Matt Shea, Lawyer

"Imagine what you'll know tomorrow"

Tommy Lee Jones, Actor

"Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence"

Robert Millikan, Physicist

"In psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them"

Charles D. Broad, Philosopher

"It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand"

Michael Aspel, Journalist

"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity"

Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist

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