Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Moliere

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Robert, Cavett

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

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

Confucius

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Richard Feynman

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.