Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bernard, Claude

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Saying

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

Miller, Keith

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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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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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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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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)

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Back, Sudie

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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.

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Moliere

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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 is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato