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  • Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

    Art   Men   Order  
    Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
  • The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

    Ignorance   Two   Life Is  
  • Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

  • 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 (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.90, Book Tree
  • 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.

    Dog   Teacher   Freedom  
    Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952.
  • Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

    Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
  • An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

    Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth
  • The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

    Success   Business   Way  
    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.72, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  • The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

  • Knowledge is love and light and vision.

    Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International
  • Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

  • 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.

    Source: www.denofgeek.com
  • 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.

    Years   Effort   Mind  
    Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”
  • When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

    Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer
  • Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

    "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson (Chapter One: The Ionian Enchantment), www.nytimes.com. 1998.
  • 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, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.
  • 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 (1932). “Where is Science Going?”
  • 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 (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.180, Vintage
  • The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

    Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.164, Routledge
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Men   Ideas   Dollars  
  • 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 (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.454, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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.

    Ignorance   Two   Goal  
  • 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.

    Peace   Practice   Needs  
    Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.9, Harmony
  • 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.

  • I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

  • 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.

    School   Forever   Matter  
    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.72, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

    Dream   Strong   Powerful  
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