Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development"

Margaret Murray, Scientist

"The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent"

William Watson

"We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages"

Sidney Altman, Scientist

"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from?"

Michael Fassbender, Actor

"To the present writer, a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean"

James H. Breasted, Archaeologist

"If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"As far as knowledge goes, I've come a long way"

Jurgen Klinsmann, Athlete

"If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know, if we will"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is"

David McCullough, Historian

"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means"

Dennis C. Blair, Public Servant

"The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"To remove this obstacle, I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments, and explain their novelty and utility"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it"

Pierre de Fermat, Lawyer

"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them"

Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Writer

"I had, therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own"

Frederick Pollock, Judge

"For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"The only thing you have to know are your words"

Eva Gabor, Actress

"I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one"

Leo Strauss, Philosopher

"The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work"

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Author

"I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come"

Gustav Krupp, Businessman

"Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life"

Giorgos Seferis, Poet

"The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62"

John Engler, Politician

"I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems"

Pierre de Fermat, Lawyer

"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything"

Pierre de Fermat, Lawyer

"I don't know enough about daytime, I think, to say anything"

Melissa Joan Hart, Actress

"I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another"

Joan Sutherland, Musician

"I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side, in order ultimately to be effective in the political world"

John Podesta, Lawyer

"We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico"

Edward Burnett Tylor, Scientist

"I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

"Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

"Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price"

George Stigler, Economist

"I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

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

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"Everything I discovered was new, and most of it was really valuable"

Alice Hamilton, Scientist

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

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

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