Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Confucius

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

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

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Edison, Thomas A.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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

11.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

12.

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

13.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

17.

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

Samuel Johnson

18.

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

Stoppard, Tom

19.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Ball, Lucille

21.

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

Cowper, William

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

24.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

25.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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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

28.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

Bible

43.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

44.

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

Lao-tzu

45.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.