The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.
Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.
