Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Comte, Auguste

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Degas, Edgar

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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Bible

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bernard, Claude

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Denham, Sir John

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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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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 desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand 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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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 only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.