Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"There is no slavery but ignorance"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

Simon Bolivar

"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

Jeremy Bentham

"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

Thomas Huxley

"The beginning of an acquaintance, whether with persons or things, is to get a definite outline of our ignorance"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"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

Wangari Maathai

"By education most have been misled; so they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, and thus the child imposes on the man"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of all knowledge"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

Ray Bradbury

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

Charles Darwin

"The most violent element in society is ignorance"

Emma Goldman, Activist

Emma Goldman

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

Thornton Wilder

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

Richard P. Feynman

"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"Ignorance is never better than knowledge"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

Enrico Fermi

"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

Enrico Fermi

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price"

Juvenal, Poet

Juvenal

"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"I have an inate curiosity about people"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

W. E. B. Du Bois

"Contrary to many young colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics"

Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies"

Marc Bloch, Historian

Marc Bloch

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

Clarence Thomas

"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest"

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

"He that knew all that learning ever writ, knew only this - that he knew nothing yet"

Aphra Behn, Dramatist

"All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown"

William Harvey, Scientist

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