Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Sophocles

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

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Stoppard, Tom

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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 the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Cowper, William

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Moliere