“Most peasants did not miss the school. "What's the point?" they would say. "You pay fees and read for years, and in… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“Preparatory men. I welcome all signs that a more manly, a warlike, age is about to begin, an age which, above all,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.” — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... in the fierce competition ofmodern society the only class left in the country possessing leisure is that of women supported in… — Mrs H O Ward Copy Share Image
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of knowledge, is a worthy objective in its own right and needs no external validation” — Gene Rosellini Copy Share Image
“Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In my thirty years of existence I've come to the realization that all talk of truth is nonsense. Because even though we… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the absence of heart, even truth becomes mindless - and the mindless never know they're mindless, they feel like it's an… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When I was an undergraduate, the censors attacked the university from without. Now, they are entrenched in the faculties and administrations themselves.… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
