Top 51 Quotes On The Search For Knowledge
#2. A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.
C.P. Snow
#3. Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.
J.R. Rim
#4. In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.
Vissarion Belinsky
#5. These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
Ajahn Chah
#6. The distinctive characteristic of religious meditation is that it is a search for truth which springs from love and which seeks to possess the truth not only by knowledge but also by love.
Thomas Merton
#7. Indolence takes many forms, but it comes to every civilization that has outlived its will. You know that as well as I. In this case it was an indolence characterized by a pursuit of knowledge, a frenzied search for answers to everything, no matter the value of such answers.
Steven Erikson
#8. She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all - the search for knowledge never ends. It goes on and on forever.
Michael Oehley
#10. This is the primary argument to make to those who say that one should read only the Quran, for it has all knowledge within it. It has the key message of Allah. But even the Prophet is widely known for having encouraged us to go, even to China, in the search for knowledge. This
Omar Saif Ghobash
#11. To find your self, get lost is the search of knowledge and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Every question may be considered the beginning, the prerequisite of the search for knowledge. Every answer may be considered the fruition of a question.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#13. 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
#14. There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.
Frederick Lenz
#15. World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.
Stephen Jay Gould
#16. When I met you, Peri, I thought this girl doesn't know it but she carries the three passion of Bertrand Russel: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable compassion for the suffering of mankind.
Elif Shafak
#17. We never seek things for themselves, but for the search.
Blaise Pascal
#18. The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.
Paul Hoffman
#19. When you search for happiness, it flies away.
When you serve others, you will find the way.
When you share blessings and express kindness,
You will find the source of enduring happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#20. A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
Thomas A Kempis
#21. The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.
Michael Lewis
#22. When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.
Alston Chase
#23. To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
T. S. Eliot
#25. One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Alfred Nobel
#26. We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.
Gregory J.E. Rawlins
#27. If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.
Debasish Mridha
#28. It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.
Dani Shapiro
#29. But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
Steven Hatfill
#30. Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.
Brian Aldiss
#31. I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.
Frederick Lenz
#32. There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.
Janet Asimov
#33. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
#34. Don't let belief masquerade as knowledge. Truth is real, and not just a matter of personal perception: Search for it, dig for it, follow the evidence. The truth isn't free; you have to earn it, and when you do, it will set you free.
David F. Capps
#35. I am a free-willed, free-thinking, non-conforming subversive using the powers of intellect and common sense to not only question my environment but search for answers to those questions in order to share that knowledge with those around me for a better tomorrow.
R. Wolf Baldassarro
#36. The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.
Fatema Mernissi
#37. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
Malcolm X
#38. Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
Abu Hurairah
#39. The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.
Alan Tower Waterman
#40. The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.
Marcus Garvey
#41. The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
Arthur C. Clarke
#42. Peace is bald eagle
Flying and flying over the trees
In search for a spot
Under the blue sky
To build her nest to care.
Debasish Mridha
#43. The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#44. In life, we always search outside for unimportant things and ignore the most important things, which are inside us.
Debasish Mridha
#45. The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
E. O. Wilson
#46. Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We are expected to ponder, to search, to evaluate, and thereby to come to a personal knowledge of the truth.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#48. Doubt ... impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, ... faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.
Vincent Bugliosi
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