Quotes About Knowledge

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

There is no such thing as a false idea.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

Even if you think you are thinking and acting globally, there is always more to learn and know!

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.