Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"Today our economy is about an economy of ideas"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"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

"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

"But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it"

Pierre de Fermat, Lawyer

Pierre de Fermat

"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

"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

"We cannot wish for that we know not?"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our best thoughts come from others"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

Benjamin Franklin

"One man that has a mind, and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven't and don't"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail"

David Hare, Playwright

David Hare

"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"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

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The true method of knowledge is experiment"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We cannot learn men from books"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"By burning Luther's books, you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

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