Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Johnson, Samuel

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Socrates

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Moliere

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Ralph, Blum

18.

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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Swinnock

22.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

28.

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

31.

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

32.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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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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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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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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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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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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 man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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

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

Mill, John Stuart