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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Sterne, Laurence

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

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

13.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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.

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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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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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

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

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

Bernard, Claude

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Richard Feynman

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Moliere

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.