Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

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

Socrates

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

Bergethon, R. K.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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 knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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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

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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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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Samuel Johnson

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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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.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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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 a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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.