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Acquiring Knowledge Quotes

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Ibn Khaldun
Men, Ignorant, Acquiring Knowledge

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 Allport
Psychology, Becoming, Acquiring Knowledge
Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.23, Yale University Press

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

Chanakya
Wisdom, Giving Up, Acquiring Knowledge

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew
Acquiring Knowledge, Method
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

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

William Glasser
Thinking, Acquiring Knowledge, Defined

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

Criss Jami
Information, Acquiring Knowledge, Trimming
Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Acquiring Knowledge, Imitation, Form

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

Sandra Bullock
Acquiring Knowledge, Brilliant

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
Religion, Atheism, Acquiring Knowledge
George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.120, Prometheus Books

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