Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

- Arundale, George S.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Miller, Keith

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Whitney, W. R.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Confucius

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon