Acquiring knowledge Quote by Denis Diderot

Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.

— L. Ron Hubbard

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed…

— John Dewey

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection.…

— John Dewey

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

— Edwin Louis Cole

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

— Claude Bernard

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

— Sigmund Freud

We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them…

— John Dewey

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,…

— William Whewell

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all…

— Christopher Lasch

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

— William Blake