Pursuit Of Knowledge Quotes

• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

  Albert Einstein

  Pursuit, Possession, Valuable

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Business, Way

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.72, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Knowledge, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.454, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

  Napoleon Hill

  School, Forever, Matter

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.72, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Dog, Teacher, Freedom

  Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952.

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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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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

  Bertrand Russell

  Power, Thinking, Technique

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.164, Routledge

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Bars, Satisfaction, Pursuit

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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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• The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Knowledge, Exhilaration, Ancient

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.180, Vintage

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Men, Vision, Limits

  Natasha Trethewey (2012). “Thrall: Poems”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

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• Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.

  Tom Riley

  People, Nuclear, Weapons

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

  John Redwood

  Self, Library, Improvement

  "Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Sleep, Dragons

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.

  William O. Douglas

  Teacher, Jobs, Fear

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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

  Frederick Sanger

  Engagement, Pursuit, Colleagues

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