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

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Denham, Sir John

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Back, Sudie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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