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“Knowledge truly is power. Acquire knowledge. Develop your skills. Step out of your comfort zone. Go for Gold. Don’t take NO for an answer.”
Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi (born 1975) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Funlola on learning in 2017
“Illiteracy, poverty and low development indices have roots in the low level of education. Today, more than ever, the main wealth source is knowledge. The global economy is being transformed from a material-based economy to a knowledge-based economy.”
Olugbemiro Jegede wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indigenous literature is Indigenous knowledge; Indigenous writers and poets are the instigators of that knowledge.”
Simon J. Ortiz (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge not only has to be compiled and presented, it also has to actually reach people. We worked on how we expressed ourselves, and always remained as objective as possible. Knowledge from other disciplines helped us communicate.”
Rafael Alberto Radi Isola (born 1963) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: It was simply phenomenal" (17 August 2021) Humboldt Foundation
“We all automatically assume that those who write and who put their knowledge down in texts have something more valuable to offer than those who simply live their knowledge and use it to inform their lives.”
Leila Ahmed (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On mortality] If you are a Jew, and I am, it is not a subject that is ever far away. The Holocaust, in which I lost no one I knew, scarred me forever. And my life is informed by knowledge of it. I'm a jolly little soul but at the back of the jollity there is a knowledge of despair.”
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Miriam Margolyes: 'I'm still a naughty schoolgirl at heart'", The Telegraph (11 October 2009)
“The burning of assets at UCT is not solely about the vandalism of property, but rather the depreciation of the sum total of parts that make an education valuable. It is safe to say that many students do not want knowledge primarily for knowledge’s sake; if that were the case then many more might consider.”
Gwen Ngwenya (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Colonialism maintains a stranglehold on knowledge production through an elaborate publication infrastructure largely based in the global North...[to] gatekeep what qualifies as "legitimate" publishable knowledge.”
Sylvia Tamale (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is therefore very important for fellows and grantees to read and stay informed about the knowledge produced within the Continent and other parts of the world, while also continuously exploring ways of contributing to global knowledge production.”
Sarah Ssali (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before coming to South Africa, I had very little knowledge about astronomy. At the time, there were no such subjects at university. My knowledge of astronomy was therefore limited to what I had learned in secondary school during geography lessons and through documentaries I had watched.”
Zara Randriamanakoto (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need to promote participation of self-identified feminists in strategic political, social and economic institutions. Simultaneously, we need to strengthen our collective knowledge building and the effective dissemination of that knowledge.”
Funmi Olonisakin (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first thing about science is asking questions; the next—and this includes the bulk of what is called scientific work—is measuring the knowledge and finding new standards of measurement; and the final thing is putting all this knowledge together.”
Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As you can see, in our world today, there is almost no longer any way of transmitting knowledge from elders to young people. Initiations in the bush, the night vigils during which elders initiate young people into adult life by transmitting ancestral knowledge to them, have practically disappeared.”
Mariam Mahamat Nour (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything that makes life beautiful is considered a luxury: knowledge is a luxury; and beauty is the future of knowledge. This is the only thing that makes things beautiful or ugly: if you know, if you are aware. Globalisation has swept away what has always been a characteristic of human beings: the search for beauty not as pure aestheticism, but on the contrary as self-construction.”
Fabio Fazio (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.”
Alfred Ford (born 1950) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alfred B. Ford, "Outrage in Moscow at Hindu Vatican", The Sydney Morning Herald (November 1, 2003)
“All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority, ... but without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.”
Stella Benson (1892–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“not only do I want people to know the history of the underclass, but I want them to go investigate. So, engaging with my work should send you into further investigations into knowledge. So, it’s a stimulus to knowledge search. (2015)”
Erna Brodber (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's the biggest short-form social knowledge library on the internet, I believe. We create the knowledge store, and we have interactive tools and community functions.”
Nancy Cruickshank wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the result of solving new problems, new questions arise; some of these questions can be solved with the existing knowledge, but some of these questions also push the boundaries of knowledge and become conjectures that may take anywhere from one to 300 years, or even greater, to solve.”
Roselyn E. Williams wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would also like to see more South African and African plants being commercialised nationally by a completely local supply chain – from researchers, manufacturers and formulators to the promotion of indigenous knowledge systems and traditional knowledge holders.”
Namrita Lall wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now, I have the knowledge and the understanding of what helped me to be productive in my own individual career that I’m able to kind of share that knowledge with my junior faculty, colleagues,”
Tasha Inniss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I used to prefer teaching to administrative work, but by the time I left teaching in 1995, the students cared about nothing but the grades and they didn't care how they got them. I believe in knowledge for knowledge's sake. But students now need a reason for everything. Everything has to be useful and entertaining. And they don't study.”
Mary Deconge (1933–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Throughout cognition, there are instances where we seem to know more than we have any reasonable right to know about the world, where we arrive at generalizations that go far beyond our sparse, noisy, limited experience. How are inductive leaps possible? There must be some other knowledge in our heads, some more abstract knowledge that guides and constrains our inferences”
Joshua Tenenbaum (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My research group has worked on a number of applications of Scone, with a special focus on using Scone to support knowledge-based natural language understanding and generation. I believe that Scone-like knowledge base systems will be important tools in the future, perhaps used in even more ways than database systems are used today.”
Scott Fahlman (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think the only way is the way human culture has gotten there. We transmit our knowledge via cultural artifacts called texts. It used to be manuscripts, then it was printed text, now it’s electronic text. We put our young people through a lot of reading to absorb the knowledge of our culture. You don’t go out and experience chemistry, you study chemistry.”
Edward Feigenbaum (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An 'expert system' is an intelligent computer program that uses knowledge and inference procedures to solve problems that are difficult enough to require significant human expertise for their solution. The knowledge necessary to perform at such a level, plus the inference procedures used, can be thought of as a model of the expertise of the best practitioners in that field.”
Edward Feigenbaum (born 1936) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Expert Systems in the 1980s (1981), Stanford University Annual Report, p. 2.
“It is assumed in this work that cognitive processes are carried out in two distinct ‘levels’ with qualitatively different mechanisms. Each level encodes a fairly complete set of knowledge for its processing, and the coverage of the two sets of knowledge encoded by the two levels overlaps substantially.”
“Knowledge is key in the proper regulation of the electricity subsector. I possess a mix of practical experience and technical knowledge to understand what goes into the proper operation and maintenance of the electricity subsector, coupled with leadership exposure and training to balance empathy and execution.”
Ziria Tibalwa Waako wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is the most precious commodity in the world? It is neither gold nor diamond, but water. Try doing without water for three days. But notice that we can hold water only with an open palm. If we close our hands, water will flow out. The same thing can be said of knowledge. To be of any real value, knowledge must be shared.”
Raul Roco (1941–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A qualification without practice, creativity, and contribution is nothing more than paper. True power lies in what you do with the knowledge you carry. Go forth and practice, innovate, create, and generate new knowledge.”
Ndaba Gaolathe (born 1971) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'We won't rest until every citizen is employed' 23 September 2025
“Opening our mouths and saying our words, breaking the cycle of the "unknowable," seems to me right now an essential tool for our survival, on our own terms, and for that of our daughters and granddaughters. We can only become stronger as we build upon each other's experiences and strengthen that repository of woman-knowledge (also community-knowledge) of which we are the rightful inheritors.”
Ramabai Espinet (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The expansion of knowledge will greatly influence the morality of indigenous women. Such knowledge can only be obtained through schooling.”
Dewi Sartika (1884–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fallibility is not a theory, but an attitude, a way of life, a philosophical option that Peirce did not see as dominating the practice of research, but rather as lurking in the folds of science. Absolute knowledge, that is, knowledge free from the constraints of criticism, would, in his view, have precluded any renewal of inquiry. (pp. 28-29)”
Giulio Giorello (1945–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The research we are aiming for seeks to improve cooperation between business and the community by building ‘knowledge webs’, a goal that is in phase with Europe’s target of evolving from an ‘information society’ to a ‘knowledge society’.”
Rose Dieng-Kuntz (1956–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Background knowledge of Christianity and Christ may have come from Tacitus,Pliny's friend (Letter 1.7, addressed to Tacitus, talks of their long friendship; they often exchanged their writings for comment). [...] Pliny, however, shows no knowledge of Christian writings in this letter.”
Robert E. Van Voorst (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge which does not change the man in some way has not become a part of his inner self. The true task of the mind is to make knowledge an integral part of one's consciousness.”
Amlan Datta (1924–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If, then, as is certain, the knowledge and kingdom of Jesus Christ are to come into the world, this will be necessary as a consequence of the knowledge and kingdom of the most holy Virgin Mary, who brought him into the world the first time and will make him shine the second time.”
Louis de Montfort (1673–1716) said by 1716 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself.”
Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1899–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With the global and international game including The Hundred, the Big Bash and FairBreak, it gives our girls an opportunity to get more knowledge from other countries and they can actually share that knowledge when they get back to South Africa”
Trisha Chetty (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”
Albert Einstein (misattributed) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The phrase "the only source of knowledge is experience" is found in an English-language essay from 1896: "We can only be guided by what we know, and our only source of knowledge is experience" (Arthur J. Pillsbury, "The…
“Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.”
Aleister Crowley (disputed) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This was quoted as an "occult tradition" in Fundamentals of Experimental Psychology (1976) by Charles Lawrence Sheridan, p. 17, but without any reference to Crowley.
“Empathy is the highest form of knowledge. (Sometimes this appears as ‘Empathy is the highest form of knowledge, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world’.)”
Plato (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge is a most peculiar affair, especially for a warrior. Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge comes to a warrior, floating, like specks of gold dust, the same dust that covers the wings of moths. So for a warrior, knowledge is like taking a shower, or being rained on by specks of dark gold dust.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Kennet, 1941; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 243.
“Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.”
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many times since have I asked God to forgive me for my ignorance? I didn't see then that the democratic mandate for Pakistan had been grossly violated.”
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.”
Walther Funk (1890–1960) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, March 31, 1946 from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this magazine, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Power of One", TIME Magazine (26 August 2002)