Top 100 Acquire Knowledge Quotes

#1. Is it not indeed a pleasure to acquire knowledge and constantly to exercise oneself therein?

Confucius

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#2. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

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#3. As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Albert Schweitzer

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#4. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The

Napoleon Hill

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#5. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?

Anonymous

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#6. Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through which people share their thoughts and intentions and thereby acquire the knowledge, customs, and values of those around them.

Steven Pinker

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#7. Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

James A. Michener

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#8. A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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#9. And what else is it that men seek in life but power? If they want money, it is but for the power that attends it, and it is power again that they strive for in all the knowledge they acquire. Fools and sots aim at happiness, but men aim only at power.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#10. It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Arnold H. Glasow

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#11. Begin to acquire knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#12. As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Jeb Bush

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#13. Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

Pythagoras

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#14. Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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#15. Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have been better designed to prevent a child's natural learning system from operating.

Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

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#16. It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Baltasar Gracian

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#17. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Ike Skelton

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#18. I read for pleasure and to acquire knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#19. Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

Dean Koontz

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#20. We use other people's brains to navigate the world: to acquire skills and practices, and to access knowledge systems of long-dead strangers. We call this 'culture'.

Mark Earls

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#21. Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.

Umar

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#22. No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

Richard Dawkins

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#23. Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#24. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

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#25. He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#26. Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge.

Amit Kalantri

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#27. Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

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#28. Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought.

Deepak Chopra

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#29. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

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#30. Make love an another human compulsion and you will fortify its limitation. Acquire it like knowledge and you will understand everything

Ashutosh Gupta

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#31. No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you
cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire
and which you are not going to receive through revelation.

Rex E. Lee

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#32. You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Desiderius Erasmus

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#33. In all human societies, health and education have an intrinsic value: the ability to enjoy years of good health, like the ability to acquire knowledge and culture, is one of the fundamental purposes of civilization.

Thomas Piketty

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#34. Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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#35. learn: v.t. to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, practice, or experience - to commit to memory - to come to know or be aware of. Obviously,

Ronald D. Davis

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#36. Knowledge is not imposing. Knowledge is fun. Anyone, given time and inclination, can acquire it. Don't only lecture, but continue to learn, because there is always much more than you know.

Anonymous

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#37. To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being.

Debasish Mridha

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#38. what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord

Daniel Keyes

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#39. No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

John Galt

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#40. Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!

Amit Chatterjee

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#41. Index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Alexander Pope

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#42. I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.

Ilyas Kassam

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#43. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

Hippocrates

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#44. You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

William Glasser

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#45. To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Virginia Woolf

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#46. But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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#47. You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Alfred North Whitehead

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#48. Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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#49. The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Derek Bok

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#50. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

H. Rider Haggard

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#51. The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

William Fleming

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#52. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#53. The truth is never simple. It's only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries.

Henning Mankell

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#54. No matter the amount of knowledge and wisdom you acquire in life, you can never be wiser than wise itself.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

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#55. The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

Arthur Davison Ficke

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#56. It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

Aristotle.

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#57. There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter ... That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters ...

Ayn Rand

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#58. I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.

Samuel Johnson

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#59. People who desire to acquire success need to have knowledge

Sunday Adelaja

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#60. Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.

Michael Harner

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#61. You can acquire some measure of knowledge from various research techniques, but nothing beats living, breathing, and feeling the same things your prospect (customers) do.

John Jantsch

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#62. The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

James E. Faust

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#63. Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

Margaret Mead

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#64. If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

John Cassian

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#65. The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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#66. Devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be of such a kind as to enable us there from to deduce rules in medicine of greater certainty than those in present use.

Russell Shorto

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#67. True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Karl Popper

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#68. That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

Philippe De Commines

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#69. No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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#70. Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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#71. Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire.

Peter F. Drucker

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#72. Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Mark Van Doren

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#73. Knowledge is wisdom that comes from acquiring truth. Insight is wisdom that comes from living out the truth we acquire. Discernment is wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit's reminders of that knowledge and insight.

Lysa TerKeurst

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#74. Generally speaking, it is injudicious for ladies to attempt arguing with gentlemen on political or financial topics. All the information that a woman can possibly acquire or remember on these subjects is so small in comparison with the knowledge of men...

Samuel Orchart Beeton

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#75. Invest to acquire knowledge to grow your wealth of wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

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#76. We must acquire the faith to accept the fact that all knowledge is from God and known to God. Knowledge is released to man on earth according to God's plan for him. Free or liberal thinking does not change truth, the revealed knowledge which comes from God.

Delbert L. Stapley

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#77. The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.

Chris Matakas

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#78. Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Leland Stanford

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#79. Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Felix O. Hartmann

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#80. Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Adyashanti

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#81. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.

John Williams

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#82. An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

Napoleon Hill

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#83. The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

Mao Zedong

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#84. You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

John H. Vandenberg

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#85. missing link" in all systems of education known to civilization today, may be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THEY ACQUIRE IT.

Napoleon Hill

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#86. By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.

John Newton

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#87. Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Leonhard Euler

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#88. Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.

Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

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#89. I think the trick with knowledge is to "acquire it, and forget all except the perfume" - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own "brain voices". The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

Alan Kay

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#90. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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#91. In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Gertrude Jekyll

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#92. I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom. To

Rachel Caine

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#93. All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

David Emerald Womeldorff

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#94. For Augustine, that's the crucial change. Knowledge is not enough for tranquillity and goodness, because it doesn't contain the motivation to be good. Only love impels action. We don't become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves.

David Brooks

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#95. Your personal development is your personal responsibility. No one can study or acquire knowledge for you. There are things only you can do, to bring the change or the results you require to make progress in life.

Archibald Marwizi

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#96. To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn Vos Savant

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#97. No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

L. Frank Baum

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#98. If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Richard Livingstone

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#99. The three years it takes to acquire 'the knowledge' and the subsequent years of navigating London's complex streets give cabbies a 30% larger hippocampus than the average London resident.

James Tagg

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#100. As far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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