Acquiring knowledge Quote by Roger Bacon

There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not…

— Roger Bacon

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

— Roger Bacon

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't…

— Laozi

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

— Confucius

Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze…

— Louis L'Amour

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

— Idries Shah

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

— Edwin Louis Cole

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

— Rene Descartes

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

— Plato

Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of…

— Matthieu Ricard

You gain knowledge by learning something new. You gain wisdom by learning and accepting something contradicting or altering things you'd learnt before.

— Majdi Rabah

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

— Samuel Johnson