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“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.”

Knows Artist Knowledge Gains Guru

Author:Robert Genn

“There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.”

Ifs Knows May Company Knowledge One Thing Please Gains Glad

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”

Inspirational Mind Desire Asks Change Knowledge Seeing Capable Gains Hunger Educational

Author:Maria Mitchell

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”

Thinking Important Ability Knowledge Learning Gains Management Perceive Lateral Thinking Thinking Differently Knowledge Gained

Author:David Bohm

“Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”

Thinking Knows Men Doe Time Loses Knowledge Learning Modern Gains Time Management Wasting Time Modernism Modern Man Art Of Loving Time To Kill

Book:The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

Source: The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

“Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies.”

Knows World Lying Dark Knowledge Wise Prove Research Gains Prize Buried Abyss Fullness Firmness

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.”

Asks Waiting Answers Knowledge Gains Right Questions

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.”

People Men Long Done Wisdom Might Science Order Found Enjoy Knowledge Duty Hard Work Paper Long Time Discovery Gains Praise Remarkable Craving Pursued Ingenious

Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.”

“In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.”

Wells Kind Art Wisdom Knowledge Design Gains Garden Acquire Arrangements Jekyll

Book:Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden

Source: Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”

“One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her some fact, To state what truth is from his point of view, Mere pin-point though it be: since many such Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend Come forward unabashed and haply lend His little life-experience to our much Of modern knowledge.”

Littles States Whole Facts Science Views Knowledge Modern Truth Is Research Gains Ears Mere Point Of View Life Experience Pins

Book:The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.

Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.

“To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.”

Way Science Perfect Knowledge Theory Gains Tests Instruments Philosopher Greek Imperfect Impress Greek Philosopher

Book:The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

Source: The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

“We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.”