Quotes About Knowledge

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.