Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Socrates

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

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

Confucius

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

25.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

32.

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

Socrates

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Moliere

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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's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Fink, David Harold

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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