Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

11.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

19.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

20.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

21.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

23.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

24.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

25.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

39.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

40.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

41.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

50.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille