Acquiring Knowledge

It is not healthy

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

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

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. Criss Jami

Real knowledge is to

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

He who gives up

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy. Chanakya

It is not my

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

We are spirits. That

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 … Read more

I think we’ve tied

I think we’ve tied acquiring knowledge too much to school Arno Allan Penzias

Science has to be

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. Alexis Carrel