Quotes About Knowledge

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was What's your alma mater? I told him, Books. You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Truth does not change, only our awareness of it.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.-because you can hardly mention anything I am not curious about.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

BOOKS… The Loom of Language

It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

My black brothers and sisters—no one will know who we are…until we know who we are! We never will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

I knew right there in prison that reading had forever changed the course of my life.

I had learned early one important thing, and that was to always teach in terms that the people could understand.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

Mr. Muhammad sent me a typed reply. It had an all but electrical effect upon me to see the signature of the "Messenger of Allah." After he welcomed me into the "true knowledge," he gave me something to think about. The black prisoner, he said, symbolized white society's crime of keeping black men oppressed and deprived and ignorant, and unable to get decent jobs, turning them into criminals.

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

We cannot teach what we do not know and we cannot lead where we will not go.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." ? Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X