Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"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

"It might be a bad thing not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it"

Sharon Olds, Poet

"I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within"

Ralph Cudworth, Theologian

"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

"Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites"

Isaac Mayer Wise, Clergyman

"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

"The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper"

John C. Hull, Professor

"Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist"

George V. Higgins, Novelist

"Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered"

Robert A. Dahl, Professor

"The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs"

Henri Pirenne, Historian

"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Diplomat

"It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science"

James H. Breasted, Archaeologist

"There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw"

Stephen Cambone, Politician

"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission"

Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist

"It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification, and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation"

Walter Lang, Director

"We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know"

Leonard Peikoff, Philosopher

"People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers"

Michael Pitt, Actor

"This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old"

James H. Breasted, Archaeologist

"Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past?"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury"

John Bright, Politician

"I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind"

Luke Ford, Writer

"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"All that you may achieve or discover, you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry"

Abbott L. Lowell

"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history"

David McCullough, Historian

"Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end"

Lawrence Clark Powell

"The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles"

Henry Sweet, Writer

"They didn't know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go"

Charles Phillips

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