Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Socrates

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Socrates

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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 has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Epictetus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Miller, Keith

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.