Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Socrates

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

11.

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

Confucius

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bright, Grant M.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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 knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Billings, Josh

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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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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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Epictetus

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas