Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Fischer, Martin H.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Ralph, Blum

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Margaret Fuller

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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

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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

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

43.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

44.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bernard, Claude

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas