Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Billings, Josh

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Socrates

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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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 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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Richard Feynman

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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Pickering

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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