Thomas Henry Buckle Quotes

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

We live in a very unequal society.

Surely there is something unlovely, to modern as against medieval minds, about marked inequality of either kind income or power.

I love working with the younger generation.

What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.

Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

I'd say I learned a lot. It's all about whether or not I can apply it.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.