Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Back, Sudie

'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

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

Billings, Josh

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Confucius

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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.

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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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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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 the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Addison, Joseph

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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 was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Socrates

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston