Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people"

Peter Oliver, Artist

"Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world"

Jane Howard, Journalist

"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial"

Johnny Ball, Entertainer

"Give people knowledge, and they really eat it up, and they appreciate it a lot, and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them"

La Monte Young, Composer

"I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance"

Carla Bley, Musician

"We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually"

Barry Corbin, Actor

"Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties"

Michael Beschloss, Historian

"I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed"

Wendy Carlos, Musician

"The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things"

Willy Ley, Writer

"Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions"

Willy Ley, Writer

"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them"

Stephen Vizinczey, Writer

"My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on"

Crystal Chappell, Actress

"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university"

John Keegan, Historian

"All my knowledge comes from research"

Stan Sakai, Cartoonist

"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions"

Susanne Langer, Philosopher

"He who binds his soul to knowledge steals the key of heaven"

Nathaniel Parker Willis, Author

"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn"

Charles Lederer, Screenwriter

"Libraries are not made, they grow"

Augustine Birrell, Author

"Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication"

Karen Black, Actress

"I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it"

Todd Barry, Comedian

"I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know"

William Least Heat-Moon, Writer

"A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology"

Stanley Smith Stevens, Psychologist

"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with"

Robert Staughton Lynd, Sociologist

"Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals"

Richard Wall, Writer

"What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge"

Robert Staughton Lynd, Sociologist

"We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with"

Lou Harrison, Composer

"To be honest, everything goes over my head a bit"

Lee Ryan, Musician

"It may be unfair of me, but I do feel I know it"

Tilda Swinton, Actress

"I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective, but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions"

James D'arcy, Actor

"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life"

George Andrew Olah, Scientist

"My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs"

David Bruce, Writer

"On our plane, knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles"

John Robert Gregg, Inventor

"Our universities and museums are respected around the country"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns, his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught"

Roger Bacon, Philosopher

"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery"

Arthur Machen, Author

"I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search"

Anne Parillaud, Actress

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