Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Confucius

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Enrico Fermi

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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

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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Markham, Beryl

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Comte, Auguste

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Stoppard, Tom

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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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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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

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred