Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"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

"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"

David Hilbert, Mathematician

David Hilbert

"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

Laurence J. Peter

"Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

"There is no better high than discovery"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

E. O. Wilson

"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"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

"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

Richard P. Feynman

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

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

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

Henri Poincare

"Ignorance is never better than knowledge"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

Enrico Fermi

"The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value"

Louis L'Amour, Author

"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"The main thing is to know something and to say it"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Nobody knows anything"

William Goldman, Novelist

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

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