Quotes About The Quest For Knowledge

#1. Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

Paul Kurtz

#2. Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

Ahmed Zewail

#3. The quest for knowledge is passion to study.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

Sydney J. Harris

#5. He thought that all human religion and philosophy could be reconciled. That the quest for knowledge was the highest good; and that somewhere, between all the wars and debate, there was some universal truth he could discover which would bring humanity together.

Elizabeth Hunter

#6. Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.

Nancy B. Brewer

#7. The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.

Arianna Huffington

#8. Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.

Paul Johnson

#9. Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality."

Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by Grace Willows

Grace Willows

#10. The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

Thomas C. Foster

#11. If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.

Boswell

#12. Every day I wake up and that's my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

Russell Wilson

#13. Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Adrian Bejan

#14. The path of light is quest for knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.

Leo Strauss

#16. Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.

John Stott

#17. We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

Dora Russell

#18. Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man.

Erich Fromm

#19. The New Economy brings the need to tap people's curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#20. Knowledge is vast like ocean. It is inexhaustible quest!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

Thomas C. Foster

#22. Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

Paul Schullery

#23. It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Jostein Gaarder

#24. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

#25. My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.

Alex Trebek

#26. His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.

Kiersten Fay

#27. Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain ... your thoughts ... your ideas ... engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.

Wes Adamson

#28. We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise in a person's mind, his or her quest for knowledge begins.

Tejomayananda

#29. The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

John F. Kennedy

#31. A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Conrad Black

#32. In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

Ernest Starling

#33. Let us hope for the best, let us dream and go for the quest.

Debasish Mridha

#34. 'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#35. Knowledge is like a vast ocean. It is inexhaustible quest!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. I only hope that when I am free,
as they are free to go in quest,
of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life,
it may not seem better to me to rest.

Robert Frost

#37. No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

Hugh Nibley

#38. The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up to each and everyone of us to embark on our own self journey to inquiry.

Frank Huguenard

#39. I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

Russell Wilson

#40. When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.

Alston Chase

#41. Was that what it was all about? To know everything - the ultimate quest of the philosopher, to comprehend the universe from the highest heaven down to the dirt upon the Earth. And Wolfdon desired to go there too, wherever "there" might be.

Mary-Jean Harris