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I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. -- Frederick Sanger
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. -- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession. -- Albert Einstein
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. -- Napoleon Hill
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. -- Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic. -- John Perry Barlow
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. -- Igor Stravinsky
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
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. -- Archibald Hill
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. -- William Dunbar
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
In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone -- C.S. Woolley
Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim. -- Idries Shah
In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish. -- Paul Schullery
A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision. -- Natasha Trethewey
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. -- Thomas Jefferson
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child. -- George Bernard Shaw
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. -- Amy Grant
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character -- Rudolf Steiner
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
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
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed! -- Zhuangzi

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