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“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

Motivational Desire Business Education Knowledge Increase Riches Thirst Acquisition Desire For Knowledge Thirst For Knowledge Increasing Knowledge

Book:The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.”

“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.”

Source: Prejudices: Third Series

“Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.”

People Thinking Want Self Faces Knowledge Acceptance Perseverance Denial Acquisition Self-denial

Author:John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

“A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.”

Men Wells May Littles Found Company Knowledge Produce Ready Display Acquisition Scarce Little Knowledge

Book:Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

“If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.”

Ifs Men Mind Kind May Science Term Knowledge Teach Offers Pure Understood Accounts Increase Improvement Great Things Despise Acquisition Exertion Small Beginnings

Author:Michael Faraday

“In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.”

“Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.”

“Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.”

Self Knowledge Destruction Increase Confusion Confusing Acquisition Without Love Self Destruction

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti