Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Degas, Edgar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Traherne, Thomas

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Cowper, William

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt