Quotes on Acquiring Knowledge

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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 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.

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.

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

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.