Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Addison, Joseph

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Richard Feynman

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Miller, Keith

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

32.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.