“Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
1950s, Education and the Significance of Life (1953)
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
Book II (1760), Ch. 3.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
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Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 390.
“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
No. 13
1790s, Discourses on Davila (1790)
Context: Are riches, honors, and beauty going out of fashion? Is not the rage for them, on the contrary, increased faster than improvement in knowledge? As long as either of these are in vogue, will there not be emulations and rivalries? Does not the increase of knowledge in any man increase his emulation; and the diffusion of knowledge among men multiply rivalries? Has the progress of science, arts, and letters yet discovered that there are no passions in human nature? no ambition, avarice, or desire of fame? Are these passions cooled, diminished, or extinguished? Is the rage for admiration less ardent in men or women? Have these propensities less a tendency to divisions, controversies, seditions, mutinies, and civil wars than formerly? On the contrary, the more knowledge is diffused, the more the passions are extended, and the more furious they grow.
“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”
Alastair Reynolds book House of Suns
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 5 (p. 59)
“The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.”
Ha-Joon Chang book Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 6, Harsh rules and developing countries, p. 142
Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 311.
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“We have been forced to put a major emphasis on the acquisition of technical knowledge.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
1930s- 1950s, An Economist Looks At the Peace (1945)
“Let everyone live as ever they like, as ever they desire.”
Harun Yahya (1956) Turkish author
21 June 2013.
A9 TV addresses, 2013
Context: Let everyone live as ever they like, as ever they desire. There should be no interference on Internet, or on Facebook, on Skype. People’s religion or ideas should not be interfered. Let everyone be free. Religion would prosper very easily in such an environment.
W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) American professor, author, and consultant
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)