Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"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

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

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"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

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

Hippocrates, Scientist

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

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

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

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

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

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"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

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"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

"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

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

Marie Curie, Scientist

Marie Curie

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

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"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

"Nobody knows anything"

William Goldman, Novelist

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

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Every clarification breeds new questions"

Arthur Bloch, Writer

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

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"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

Maynard James Keenan

"Funeral by funeral, theory advances"

Paul Samuelson, Economist

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach"

William Godwin, Writer

"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

Maynard James Keenan

"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

Bob Woodward

"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions"

Ken Burns, Director

Ken Burns

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

Robert Anthony, Educator

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

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

Adam Weishaupt

"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

"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

"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

Abigail Adams

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

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"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

Sarah McLachlan

"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

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

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

Edward T. Hall

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

Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor

Eduardo Chillida

"Ignorance breeds fear"

Mike Wilson, Writer

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

Lyn Nofziger

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