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Acquiring Knowledge Quotes (page 3)

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. Samuel Johnson
We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. ...Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it. Bertrand Russell
Leonhard Euler quote: "Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge..."
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. Leonhard Euler
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing. Leo Tolstoy
When his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporatein a flood of chemical reactions. Dan Brown
An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.? Napolean Hill
Karl Popper quote: "True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the..."
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. Karl Popper
Culture is not something you put on like a ready-made suit of clothes, but a nourishment you absorb to build up your personality, just as food builds up the body of a growing boy; it is not an ornament to decorate a phrase, still less to show off your knowledge, but a means, painfully acquired, to enrich the soul. W. Somerset Maugham
True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. Robert Mugabe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my..."
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. William Glasser
William Glasser quote: "You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. William Glasser
Henry Mayhew quote: "The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the..."
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. Henry Mayhew
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. Orville Wright
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. Brian Tracy

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