Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement"

Justin Winsor, Writer

"You should have a fund of knowledge of something, and out of that you make up you mind"

John Kluge, Businessman

"It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality"

James Loeb, Businessman

"Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said"

Peter Lewis Allen, Writer

"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find"

Freda Adler, Educator

"Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?"

William H. Wharton, Politician

"The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands"

Seth Low, Educator

"For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked"

Glenn Quinn, Actor

"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens"

Michael Giles, Musician

"We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence"

Bob Graham, Politician

"Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof"

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Scientist

"But I owe it to the subject to say that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought and made barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement"

J. L. Austin, Philosopher

"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics"

Roger Bacon, Philosopher

"Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics"

Vernon L. Smith, Economist

"Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated"

Suzanne Fields, Writer

"In a cult intervention, information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of"

Rick Ross, Celebrity

"Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done"

J. L. Austin, Philosopher

"These people, being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C"

James H. Breasted, Archaeologist

"We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before, and they are learning about the Holocaust, which, unhappily, many of them do not know about"

Linda Lavin, Actress

"I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him"

Tommy Bond, Actor

"By the time I was in sixth grade, I could bound every country in the world from memory"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair"

James Patterson, Author

"Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"I'd never heard anything about this at all"

Wes Anderson, Writer

"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world"

Rick Wagoner, Businessman

"Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on, but now it's a must"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot"

Kit Williams, Author

"Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing"

James Harvey Robinson, Historian

"It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences"

Kathleen Kenyon, Scientist

"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian"

James H. Breasted, Archaeologist

"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts"

Brooks Robinson, Athlete

"It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience, which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history"

James H. Breasted, Archaeologist

"The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate"

J. M. Roberts, Historian

"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people"

Matthew Modine, Actor

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