Acquisition Quote by Wendell Berry

“The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance - almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world instructs us…

— Wendell Berry

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

“Our end is the acquisition of knowledge.”

— James Joyce

Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of…

— Rudolf Steiner

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

— Eric Linklater

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves…

— Henning Mankell

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

— Heinz Pagels

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

— Barack Obama

“And what is that going to lead to?" "The acquisition of knowledge," he smiled. "It doesn't sound very practical." "Perhaps it isn't and on…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end…

— Dallin H. Oaks