Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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