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"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."

Alan Dundes 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 Alan Dundes

• "Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."

• "Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."

• "In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."

• "If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."

• "Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."