Productive Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

“...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.”

— Idries Shah

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

— Fritz Machlup

“Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire 's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money,…

— Seymour Papert

“Knowledge without action is like a bow without a string.” A relationship as close as blood relationship must be established between knowledge and action.…

— Franz Rosenthal

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something…

— Elie Wiesel

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to…

— Tom Felton

“There are those who believe knowledge is something that is acquired - a precious ore hacked, as it were, from the grey strata of…

— Terry Pratchett

I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity;…

— Henry David Thoreau

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the…

— Jared Diamond