Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"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

"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

"Years teach us more than books"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

Berthold Auerbach

"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

"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

"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

"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure"

Felix Klein, Mathematician

"Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is no darkness but ignorance"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"I say there is no darkness but ignorance"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"All men by nature desire knowledge"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The learning and knowledge that we have is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The most dangerous people are the ignorant"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Even for practical purposes, theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge"

Confucius, Philosopher

"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"The supernatural is the natural, not yet understood"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world"

Robin Williams, Comedian

Robin Williams

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"Education is the cheap defense of nations"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

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