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Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is true for kids and adults — for schoolrooms and nations.
Robert Fulghumborn 1937All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
- Knowledge
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- Knowledge
- Thinking
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Isaac McPherson (1813)
- Ideas
- Knowledge
Liberal education is the ladder by which we try to ascend from mass democracy to democracy as originally meant.
Leo Strauss1899–1973Liberalism: Ancient and Modern (1968), “What is liberal education,” pp. 4-5
- Democracy
Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
- Knowledge
- Work
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“The Need for Ethical Culture”, message on the 75th anniversary of the Ethical Culture Society (5 January 1951)
- Morality
How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- God
- Knowledge
Man’s right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Response to FDA complaint (1954)
- Freedom
- Knowledge
The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020“Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society”, in Edge (8 August 2007)
- Knowledge
- Science
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather1873–1947The Song of the Lark (1915), Part VI, Ch. 7
- Experience
And cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge can hopefully lead to cooperation in the pursuit of peace.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at the University of California at Berkeley
- Knowledge
- War & Peace
Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977The Great Dictator (1940), the barber’s closing speech
- Knowledge
- Thinking
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Friedrich Hayek1899–1992The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988), Ch. 5: The Fatal Conceit.
- Economics
- Knowledge
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855Letter to Farkas Bolyai (2 September 1808)
- Knowledge
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Thinking