Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Addison, Joseph

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Denham, Sir John

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Enrico Fermi

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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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 is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Miller, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.