Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Traherne, Thomas

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

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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 must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Billings, Josh

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Benchley, Robert

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Churchill, Winston

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Van Horne, William

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

Moliere

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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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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.