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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Swinnock

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Bailey, Pearl

10.

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

11.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

13.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Enrico Fermi

15.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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.

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

Bible

26.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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.

30.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

31.

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

Saying

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

33.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Ralph, Blum

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

44.

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

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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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