Knowledge Seeking Quotes

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea‑shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

My only weapon is the question.

I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.

There's all kinds of schisms in Satanism, but the thing I like about it is the quest for knowledge.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

I just had a great curiosity about how things worked.

I write books to find out about things.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

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.

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.