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"When people don't get enough information, they make it up"
Gary Cherone, Musician
"I'm just a vessel of information"
Steven Cojocaru, Critic
"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature"
Harriet Martineau, Writer
"Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail"
Franz Grillparzer, Poet
"He that knew all that learning ever writ, knew only this - that he knew nothing yet"
Aphra Behn, Dramatist
"It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so"
Edwin Armstrong, Inventor
"After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather"
John Hartford, Musician
"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin"
Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist
"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent, on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell"
Michael Polanyi, Scientist
"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens"
William Beveridge, Economist
"Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is"
Colin Wilson, Writer
"When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills"
Albert Claude, Scientist
"Today our economy is about an economy of ideas"
Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician
"This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America"
William Labov, Writer
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing"
Jimmy Wales, Businessman
"Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged"
Russell Simmons, Businessman
"Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world"
Aaron Klug, Physicist
"It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action"
Edward Livingston, Judge
"I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world, and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences"
Ian Hacking, Philosopher
"Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context"
Josh McDowell, Writer
"Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for"
Thomas Arnold, Educator
"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express"
James C. Maxwell, Mathematician
"It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery"
Howard Carter, Scientist
"We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past"
Heinrich Schliemann, Scientist
"People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter"
David McCallum, Actor
"At the same time we overlap, because I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject"
David Crystal, Educator
"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner"
Howard Staunton, Celebrity
"I say there is no darkness but ignorance"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"We cannot wish for that we know not?"
Voltaire, Writer
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Our best thoughts come from others"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information!"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail"
David Hare, Playwright
"One man that has a mind, and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven't and don't"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow"
Cicero, Philosopher
"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet"
Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author
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