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

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Fink, David Harold

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

29.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

30.

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

Back, Sudie

31.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Confucius

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

38.

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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.