Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

Bible

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Moliere

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Bright, Grant M.

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.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

10.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

11.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

12.

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

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

13.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

15.

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

Manutius

16.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Mill, John Stuart

21.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Billings, Josh

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Sterne, Laurence

25.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

27.

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

Lao-tzu

28.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Confucius

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Fink, David Harold