Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Miller, Keith

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Addison, Joseph

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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-how will surpass guess-how.

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Pickering

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Shakespeare, William

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Confucius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow