Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"He that loves reading has everything within his reach"

William Godwin, Writer

"The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions"

William Godwin, Writer

"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"Funeral by funeral, theory advances"

Paul Samuelson, Economist

"People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English"

Michael Moore, Activist

"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know"

Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"Ignorance breeds fear"

Mike Wilson, Writer

"A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote"

Lyn Nofziger

"I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter"

Jay-Z, Musician

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience"

Clarence Day, Author

"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill"

Wilbur Wright, Inventor

"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it"

Georg Cantor, Mathematician

"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"The information is in the people, not in your head"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the Great Pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"An educated people can be easily governed"

Frederick The Great, Royalty

"What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it"

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Philosopher

"Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age"

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Philosopher

"This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant"

Richard Cecil, Clergyman

"Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

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