Pursuit Of Knowledge Quotes:

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

topic: Ignorance, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Learning, Inspirational School

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Pursuit, Possession, Valuable, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

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

topic: School, Forever, Calling, Finished School, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success

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

topic: Truth, Knowledge, Politics, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

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

topic: Dog, Teacher, Freedom, Barking Dogs, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Real, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge And Understanding

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Decision, Analysis, Investing, Best Investment, Good Money

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Thinking, Power, Technique, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

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

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Bars, Satisfaction, Pursuit, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

- Helen Keller

topic: Christian, Education, Knowledge, Light And Knowledge, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

topic: Knowledge, Exhilaration, Ancient, Lure, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

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

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

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

- Natasha Trethewey

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

topic: Men, Vision, Limits, Shortcomings, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

topic: Knowledge, Science, Discovery, Scientific Discovery, Scientific Knowledge

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

source: Source: www.denofgeek.com

topic: People, Nuclear, Weapons, Pursuit Of Knowledge, Greater Good

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

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

topic: Self, Library, Improvement, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

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

topic: Knowledge, Sleep, Dragons, Guarded, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Fear, Stimulants, Dogmatism

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Education, Character, Goal, Good Character, Inspirational Character

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

- Frederick Sanger

topic: Engagement, Pursuit, Colleagues, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

topic: Believe, Men, Role Models, Pursuit Of Knowledge

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

topic: Knowledge, Class, Ferns, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

- E. O. Wilson

source: "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson (Chapter One: The Ionian Enchantment), www.nytimes.com. 1998.

topic: Ambition, Knowledge, Science, Pursuit Of Knowledge, Greek Myth

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Years, Effort, Mind, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Motivational, Coexist, Religious Life

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

- Sting

topic: Pain, Knowledge, Thinking, Pursuit Of Knowledge, Alleviate

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

- Plato

topic: Business, Numbers, Decision, Knowledge And Understanding, Good Decision

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

- Robert Thurman

topic: Buddhism, Reality, Systematic, Pursuit Of Knowledge

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

topic: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Done, Pursuit Of Knowledge, Tao Ching

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

- George W. Melville

topic: Men, Ideas, Dollars, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

- James G. Frazer

topic: Dream, Strong, Powerful, Splendour, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

topic: Knowledge, Pursuit, Difficulty, Pursuit Of Knowledge

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

- David Krumholtz

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

topic: Tv Shows, People, Together, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

- Kevin Mitnick

source: "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

topic: Intellectual, Curiosity, Hacking, Intellectual Curiosity, Computer Hacking

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Stars, Justice, Independence, Jewish Tradition, Personal Independence

There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

topic: Ignorance, Two, Goal, Pursuit Of Knowledge

In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

- Martha Beck

source: Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.9, Harmony

topic: Peace, Practice, Needs, Pursuit Of Knowledge

Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

- Will Durant

source: Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

topic: Art, Men, Order, Embellishment, Four Elements

For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves, both of which, by relieving some classes from the perpetual struggle for a bare subsistence, afford them an opportunity of devoting themselves to that disinterested pursuit of knowledge which is the noblest and most powerful instrument to ameliorate the lot of man.

- James G. Frazer

topic: Powerful, Struggle, Opportunity, Disinterested, Pursuit Of Knowledge

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

- John Maynard Keynes

topic: Long, Principles, Way, Pursuit Of Knowledge