Pursuit Of Knowledge Quotes

Pursuit Of Knowledge Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I, Benjamin Franklin, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Henry David Thoreau and many others.

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai Stevenson I
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
Albert Einstein
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.
Henry David Thoreau
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
Frederick Sanger
Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren’t expecting.
Tom Riley
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
E. O. Wilson
If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
George W. Melville
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
Plato
There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Kevin Mitnick
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: …she knew there was nothing to fear.
Toni Morrison
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.