Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Markham, Beryl

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Pickering

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Margaret Fuller

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Moliere

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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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 knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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