Acquiring Knowledge Quotes

• 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

  Knowledge, Science, Reality

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947). “Physics in the Contemporary World”

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• 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

  Knowledge, Mean, Reflection

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Admitting, Firsts

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• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Business

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

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• Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Knowledge, World

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746

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• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Education, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International

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• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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

  Ibn Khaldun

  Men, Ignorant

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

  Alexis Carrel

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Science

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

  Criss Jami

  Information, Trimming, Clutter

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Eating

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• 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

  Educational, School, Opportunity

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

  William Glasser

  Thinking, Defined, Ifs

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• Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

  Ayn Rand

  Acceptance, Productive Work, Facts

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.963, Penguin

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

  Henry Mayhew

  Method

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

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• Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Thinking, Productive Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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

  William Glasser

  Educational, School, Thinking

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• 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

  Prayer, Humility, Law

  Bertrand Russell (1967). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”

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• 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 Allport

  Psychology, Becoming, Hints

  Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.23, Yale University Press

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• Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Success, Acceptance

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

  Roger Bacon

  Inspirational, Two, Doubt

  1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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• The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.

  John Quincy Adams

  Science, Men, Earth

  "Memoir of the life of John Quincy Adams". Book by Josiah Quincy, 1858.

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• I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

  Arno Allan Penzias

  School, Thinking, Too Much

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