Edward R. Murrow Quotes

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I just think knowledge makes the world go 'round, man. So, if that makes me a geek, then cool.

For me, 'rich' isn't having lots of money; rich is having loads of things in your head.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Information is not knowledge.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.