Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

In acquiring knowledge there is no law that applies to the white boy that does not apply to the black boy. They all have to travel the same road to reach the same end….A man that desires to be wise must study, whether he be black or white.

There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

If there's information out there, you want it.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )