Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Ball, Lucille

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Enrico Fermi

12.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

13.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Szasz, Thomas

26.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Miller, Keith

35.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

37.

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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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Saying

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Whitney, W. R.

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von