Quotes About Acquiring Knowledge

#1. William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.

Jill Ker Conway

#2. The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.

John C. Wright

#3. We are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

Dean Koontz

#4. I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

Arno Allan Penzias

#5. Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Ibn Khaldun

#6. Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Criss Jami

#7. Its not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living

Anonymous

#8. Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

John Quincy Adams

#10. He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Chanakya

#11. I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.

George H. Smith

#12. I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

William Glasser

#13. If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#14. There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge ... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

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

Amit Kalantri

#16. As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

William Glasser

#17. Mentoring means not only acquiring knowledge but also learning how to practically apply that knowledge in life.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#19. Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...

Socrates

#20. We can be sure, he [Kant] says, that anything we shall ever experience must show the characteristics affirmed of it in our a priori knowledge, because these characteristics are due to our own nature, and therefore nothing can ever come into our experience without acquiring these characteristics.

Bertrand Russell

#21. To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven,

Mark Twain

#22. Faith requires nothing but blind adherence, whereas knowledge demands the continual apprehension of an ever-expanding body of information. With faith, one can at least claim knowledge without having to do the hard work of acquiring it.

Mark Hodder

#23. We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

William Glasser

#24. Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

#25. Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Napoleon Hill

#26. True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure.

William Boyd

#27. I suffered unbearable torture in silence, weeping internallyat the sad turn of events, blaming myself bitterly again and again for having delved into the supernatural without first acquiring a fuller knowledge of the subject and providing against the dangers and risks of the path.

Gopi Krishna

#28. 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

#29. For most princes apply themselves more to affairs of war than to the useful arts of peace; and in these I neither have any knowledge, nor do I much desire it; they are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms, right or wrong, than on governing well those they possess:

Thomas More

#30. Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

Kofi Annan

#31. Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

Edwin Louis Cole

#32. If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Plato

#33. "Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

Jim Herrick

#34. The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew

#35. But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.

M. Russell Ballard

#36. The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Gordon W. Allport

#37. The only really leisured people are those who devote time to acquiring true knowledge rather than trivia.

Seneca.

#38. There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge .

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#39. Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.

Eraldo Banovac

#40. Acquiring new knowledge has been crucial for survival over the millennia.

Eraldo Banovac

#41. The Master said, 'If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Anonymous

#42. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both

James Madison

#43. There are few pleasures equal to that of imparting to a voracious learner the knowledge that one has grown old and weary in acquiring.

Thornton Wilder

#44. It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.

Arnold Arre

#45. The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

Michel De Montaigne

#46. If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

Hannah More

#47. At birth one is Shudra, through education and samskaras, one becomes cultured (Dwija or twice born), then by practicing the Vedas, one becomes Vipra or knowledgeable and it is only by acquiring the knowledge of the Absolute Brahm, does one become enlightened or Brahmin.

Kamlesh Kapur

#48. Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).

Dada Bhagwan

#49. Regardless of one's age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.

Eraldo Banovac

#50. Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization.

Eraldo Banovac

#51. It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Bertrand Russell