Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

We will acquire knowledge and science wherever they are to be found and we will stuff them into the head of every individual in the country. No limits, no conditions can be attached to knowledge and science.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.