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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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.

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

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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 disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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 long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Cowper, William

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

Stoppard, Tom

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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 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

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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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Churchill, Winston

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Swinnock

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles