Quotes About Knowledge

All the real secrets are buried, and only ghosts speak the truth.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

UNU provides a continuous feedback loop of the group's preference for a choice, as well as its conviction. People are adjusting their levels of conviction based on the completeness of their own knowledge on the subject.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.'

Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

I'm definitely not an expert on public health.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.