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  • Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. -- Roy Romer
  • The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -- Laurence Sterne
  • The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. -- Michael Gove
  • The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. -- Rene Descartes
  • The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing. -- Barry Eisler
  • Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean. -- James Fenimore Cooper
  • The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • . . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Education is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance. -- Wendell Berry
  • For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth. -- Eric Linklater
  • A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge. -- Max Planck
  • The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
  • The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. -- Grenville Kleiser
  • Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. -- Constantin Stanislavski
  • My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom. -- Kevin Vanhoozer
  • In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God. -- Dallin H. Oaks
  • Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
  • Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. -- Tim Minchin
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