Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

- Bernard, Claude

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Kuehler, Jack

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Enrico Fermi

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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

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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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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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Saying

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Moliere

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

Bible

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Lowell, James Russell

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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