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

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Socrates

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Penn, William

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 is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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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''

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

Lao-tzu

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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 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

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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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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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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