Quotes About Gathering Knowledge

#1. You probably know that you are not the only man who has had to sacrifice immediate monetary remuneration for the sake of gathering knowledge, for in truth your experience has been that of every philosopher from the time of Socrates down to the present.

Napoleon Hill

#2. Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge.

Roopleen

#3. War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

Stanislaw Lem

#4. Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

Henry Ford

#5. Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Peter Medawar

#6. Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests

Osho

#7. It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you're in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder.

Blakney Francis

#8. I am careful
with whom I spend my time.
I surround myself only
with those who encourage
and uplift me.

Human Angels

#9. Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Adriana Trigiani

#10. It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Philip Sidney

#11. You're the warm sun that shines when everything else is dark," he went on, lifting his hands to rest them on the wall on either side of my face. "A smile and a hug in a roomful of disapproval. You're ... " Wincing, he pressed his forehead against mine. "You're everything.

Linda Kage

#12. Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

William Glasser

#13. Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. My dream ... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

Martha Stewart

#15. The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas ... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

Laozi

#16. Archie.'
'Yes, sir.'
'Do I ever intrude in your private affairs?'
'Yes, sir. Frequently. But you think you don't, so go right ahead.

Rex Stout

#17. For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

May Sinclair

#18. If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.

Ann Coulter

#19. Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.

Elizabeth Reyes

#20. For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Ed Balls

#21. Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

Steven Sinofsky