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

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

Back, Sudie

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

Milton, John

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Socrates

10.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

12.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

13.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

14.

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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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.

23.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

24.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

25.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

26.

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

27.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

29.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

30.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

32.

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.

33.

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

Hall, Bishop

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

37.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

43.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

44.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

45.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

46.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

47.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

48.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

49.

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

Enrico Fermi

50.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul