Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"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 most violent element in society is ignorance"

Emma Goldman, Activist

Emma Goldman

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

Ray Bradbury, Writer

Ray Bradbury

"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

"I have an inate curiosity about people"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

"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

"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

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

Konrad Lorenz

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

Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

"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

"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"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

"Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think'"

Levi Strauss, 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

"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

"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

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

William Harvey, Scientist

"Years teach us more than books"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

Berthold Auerbach

"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature"

Freya Stark, Writer

"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word"

Gilbert Murray, Diplomat

"If we don't have an informed electorate, we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows"

James Bryce, Diplomat

"Information is the resolution of uncertainty"

Claude Shannon, Mathematician

Claude Shannon

"We are all experts in our own little niches"

Alex Trebek, Entertainer

"Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands"

Robert Conquest, Historian

"Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge"

Emmitt Smith, Athlete

Emmitt Smith

"Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know"

Mark Oliphant, Scientist

"Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity"

Mary Leakey, Scientist

"Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look"

Conrad Bums, Writer

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance"

Derek Bok, Lawyer

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