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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bernard, Claude

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

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.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Denham, Sir John

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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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 is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Lao-tzu

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Man knows more than he understands.