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Quotes about Knowledge

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.
— Margaret Atwood
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
— Margaret Mead
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
— Steve Jobs
Science should be on tap, not on top.
— Winston Churchill
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
— Thomas Merton
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
— Carl Sagan
Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?
— Anne Lamott
The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
— Seth Godin
Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.
— Seth Godin
The right information brings knowledge. And knowledge is power. Sharing it is empowerment.
— Seth Godin
Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.
— Seth Godin