Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

Ralph, Blum

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Haskins, Caryl

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

11.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

12.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Morrison, Jim

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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

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

23.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Socrates

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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

30.

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

Benchley, Robert

31.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

32.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

33.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

34.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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

38.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

40.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William