Gaining Knowledge Quotes

• 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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• We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Science, Rainbow

  A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)

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• Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

  Gautama Buddha

  Zealous, Lost, Zeal

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

  John Galt

  Mean, Men, Gains

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• It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult. He is contemptible in that his judgments reflect a vision of himself which in his ignorance and pride he would impose upon the world. I implore you, do not become a moralist; you will destroy your art and your mind.

  John Edward Williams

  Art, Ignorance, Pride

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• The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.

  John Dewey

  Ideas, Mind, Sound

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

  Narendra Modi

  Google, Information, Easy

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• Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Arrogance

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• 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

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, People

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• If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

  John Locke

  Health, Hands, Useless

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.296

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• Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.

  Seymour Papert

  People, Sound, Machines

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Math, Understanding

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• Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

  Edith Hamilton

  Results, Wells, Prerequisites

  Edith Hamilton (1936). “The prophets of Israel”, W. W. Norton & Company

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