Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Haskins, Caryl

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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 without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Caine, Mark

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cowper, William

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Confucius

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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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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