Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"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 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

"In 1763, the English were the most powerful nation in the world"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"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

"The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

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

Alice James, Writer

"In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"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

"Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate"

Jeffrey Archer, 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

"The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment"

Johannes Kepler, Scientist

"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

"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

"The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight"

Harold Rosenberg, Writer

"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information"

Slick Rick, Musician

"Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake"

Steve Powers, Businessman

"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, it is not safe to know"

William Davenant, Poet

"My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes"

Robert Millikan, Physicist

"We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners"

John C. Hull, Professor

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