Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Channing, William Ellery

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Miller, Keith

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

Swinnock

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

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)

10.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

18.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Bible

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

30.

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

31.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mueller, Robert K.

40.

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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, 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 is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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