Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Bright, Grant M.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

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

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

Richard Feynman

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Socrates

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

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

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Epictetus

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Back, Sudie

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