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Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. -- William Glasser
I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school -- Arno Allan Penzias
Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ... -- Socrates
Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. -- Ibn Khaldun
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. -- William Glasser
Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned. -- Shannon L. Alder
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. -- Criss Jami
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy. -- Chanakya
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
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living. -- Ernest Wood
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
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
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. -- John Quincy Adams
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book. -- Jill Ker Conway
I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason. -- George H. Smith
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
Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people. -- Heinz Pagels
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English. -- Noam Chomsky
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
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
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. -- Claude Bernard
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. -- Arnold H. Glasow
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. -- Plato
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -- Marilyn vos Savant
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge. -- Jeb Bush
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom. -- A. R. Rahman
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. -- Philip Stanhope
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. -- Isaac Hanson
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. -- Henry Mayhew
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. -- Karen Armstrong
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. -- Avicenna
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. -- Leland Stanford
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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 W. Allport
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. -- Avicenna
Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge. -- Amit Kalantri
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. -- Napoleon Hill
There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge . -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. -- William Glasser
If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others. -- Confucius
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
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
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. -- Alexis Carrel
Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life. -- Kofi Annan
Let's stop discussing about who a wise person is and start learning to become wise persons. Begin acquiring knowledge at the very moment you discover that there is something called "knowledge"! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself... and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your children and grandchildren and unborn generations enlightened by what you have already learnt! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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