Quotes About Pursuing Knowledge

#1. Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

Khalil Gibran

#2. Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to please this aftermath of the book by knowledge that was more historical and psychological than literary and aesthetical.

Sasa Stanisic

#3. I bet if I spent less time with the television and more time pursuing activities that enhance my life and expand my knowledge, I won't freeze up in business or social situations.

Jen Lancaster

#4. I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.

Robert Crumb

#5. I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

Steve Vai

#6. Because of dreams, success is worth pursuing. Because of love, life is worth living.

Debasish Mridha

#7. It's never too late to dream another dream.

Jamie Larbi

#8. The Enlightenment (The beginning of) a way of pursuing knowledge with a tradition of criticism and seeking good explanations instead of reliance on authority.

David Deutsch

#9. If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?

Scott Adams

#10. The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

Susan Sontag

#11. At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles. Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open country.

Anthony Doerr

#12. Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ... man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#13. Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

John C. Maxwell

#14. Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Michael Polanyi

#15. The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin

#16. The reality of my situation quickly crushes any false hope that could seep into my head and poison what I know to be certain

J. Daniels

#17. Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

Heinrich Heine

#18. All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

Zoe Weil

#19. It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have "an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will."

Neal A. Maxwell

#20. All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#21. Love as if you are born to love.

Debasish Mridha

#22. He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.

Peter Newmark

#24. Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish

Trevanian