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  • I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

  • 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.

    Mean   Science   Benefits  
    "Smithsonian Perspectives" by I. Michael Heyman, www.smithsonianmag.com. February 1996.
  • The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

    Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
  • 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 Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.23, Yale University Press
  • All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

  • Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

    Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”
  • To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

    "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.
  • Knowledge is love and light and vision.

    Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International
  • Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami
  • Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

  • We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

  • 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.

    1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).
  • 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.

  • 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 (1947). “Physics in the Contemporary World”
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Children   Perfect   Goal  
    Noam Chomsky (1986). “Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use”, p.16, Greenwood Publishing Group
  • The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.

    Science   Men   Earth  
    "Memoir of the life of John Quincy Adams". Book by Josiah Quincy, 1858.
  • Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

    Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.963, Penguin
  • It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

    Prayer   Humility   Law  
    Bertrand Russell (1967). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”
  • As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

  • 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 (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.120, Prometheus Books
  • I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

  • 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 (2014). “Concentration: An Approach to Meditation”, p.13, Quest Books
  • A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

    Wisdom   Plato   Business  
    Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83
  • We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

    Death   Pain   Way  
    Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin
  • Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

    'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746
  • 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 (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin
  • Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

  • 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 (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan
  • 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.

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