If you care enough for a result you will most certainly attain it.

In any case in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

A good government implies two things first fidelity to the objects of the government secondly a knowledge of the means by which those objects can be best attained.

Even scientific knowledge if there is anything to it is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

You can practice to attain knowledge but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Use your gifts faithfully and they shall be enlarged practice what you know and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

As writers become more numerous it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.