John Warnock Quotes

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

It is the mark of a greatly educated person to be deeply moved by statistics.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

We have a lot to learn from everyone.

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.