World Quotes

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

~ Jimmy Wales

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

~ Henry James Sumner Maine

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

~ Emma Thompson

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

~ Franz Kafka

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

~ Steve Berry

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

~ Ramana Maharshi

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.

~ Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

~ Tony Bates

One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and comfort zone. That's not very common in the States. We produce our own soft power, which is pop culture, but we rarely try to absorb and learn information from other cultures and countries.

~ Hasan Minhaj

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

~ Steven Pinker

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

~ Steven Pinker

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

~ Shia Labeouf

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

~ Kapil Sibal

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

~ V. S. Naipaul

There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.

~ Sabrina Carpenter

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.

~ Tony Judt

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

~ Chuck D

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

~ Nathaniel Branden

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

~ John Vane

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

~ N. Scott Momaday

For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life's complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India, vast sums of knowledge are available if we but recognize it.

~ Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

~ Richard Blumenthal

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

~ Bernard Williams

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

~ Robert Southey

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

~ Rebecca Hall

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

~ Sloane Crosley

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

~ Philippe Cousteau

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

~ Nicholas D. Kristof

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

~ Brian P. Cleary

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

~ C. S. Lewis

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

~ Muhammad Yunus

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

~ Kirk Gibson

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

~ Hans Hofmann

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

~ Kathleen Hanna

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

~ Marcus Allen

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

~ James A. Baldwin

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

~ Barbara Kruger