Famous Quotes

"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."

Clifford Geertz on Knowledge

More quotes about Knowledge

• "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "Information is not knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

  Marcus Garvey on Knowledge

• "Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

  William Shakespeare on Knowledge

More quotes by Clifford Geertz

• "The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."

• "Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."

• "I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."

• "I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."