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“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”

Mind Has Beens Ends Would Be Action Forget Rooms Knowledge Knowing Learning Constitution Sake Fortunate Merciful Rubbish

Author:Anna Brackett

“Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”

Reason Humanity Knowledge Ignorance Sake Cures Viruses

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.”

Knows Men Reason Helping Use Action Desire Views Knowledge Sight Sake Senses Esteem Distinction Indication

Book:The Metaphysics ...: with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick

Source: The Metaphysics ...: with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick

“If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.”

Ifs Life Should Trying Ends Philosophy Desire Literature Knowledge Influence Mark Aim Sake Determine Educational Good Will Outlines Archer Nicomachean Ethics Great Influence

Author:Aristotle

“All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.”

Knows Science Goal Knowledge Ultimate Sake Begging Ultimate Goal

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.”

Ifs Doe Reason Science Knowledge Knowing Accounts Sake Delight Impulse Organized Contemplating Inquiry Penetrate Grind Diligent

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.”

“The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.”

Moments Science Existence Knowledge Sake Pursued Geometry

Book:The Republic of Plato, Translated Into English, with an Introduction, Analysis, and Notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan

Source: The Republic of Plato, Translated Into English, with an Introduction, Analysis, and Notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan