Acquisition Quote by Immanuel Kant

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes…

— Thomas Jefferson

If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be…

— Hakim ibn Hizam

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know

— Terrence Howard

Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction,…

— Bill Joy

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question…

— Anonymous

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're…

— John Polkinghorne

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings)…

— Thomas Paine

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance…

— Benjamin Franklin

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

— Douglas Adams

One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the…

— George Stillman Hillard

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded…

— Mark Twain

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the…

— W.N.P. Barbellion