Pursuit Of Knowledge Quotes by Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Henry David Thoreau, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein, Natasha Trethewey, Helen Keller and many others.
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.
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
A man’s pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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.
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.
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.
Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
