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"We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions"
Ronald Fisher, Mathematician
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite"
Karl Popper, Philosopher
"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding"
Marc Bloch, Historian
"Every educated person is a future enemy"
Martin Bormann, Soldier
"We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge"
John Naisbitt, Businessman
"All ideas grow out of other ideas"
Anish Kapoor, Artist
"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
Will Harvey, Businessman
"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens"
Charles Morgan, Novelist
"Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it"
Mike Ferguson, Politician
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book"
Austin Phelps, Clergyman
"For me, archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources"
Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Historian
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words"
Thomas Reid, Philosopher
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge, doubt increases"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know"
Cicero, Philosopher
"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information"
Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability"
Henry Ford, Businessman
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects"
Will Rogers, Actor
"Only the educated are free"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy"
Camille Paglia, Author
"There is no slavery but ignorance"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"The learned is happy, Nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction"
Simon Bolivar, Leader
"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"The beginning of an acquaintance, whether with persons or things, is to get a definite outline of our ignorance"
George Eliot, Author
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth"
Wangari Maathai, Activist
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty"
James Madison, President
"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values"
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman
"Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up"
Mary Astell, Writer
"There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history"
Wilma Mankiller, Statesman
"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own"
Samuel Smiles, Author
"Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of all knowledge"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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