Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

- Enrico Fermi

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Michener, James A.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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 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 the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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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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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

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Epictetus

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.