Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Comte, Auguste

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Stoppard, Tom

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Szasz, Thomas

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Socrates

12.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

13.

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

Moliere

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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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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

19.

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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Miller, Keith

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

37.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.