Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

- Everett, Douglas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Epictetus

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

Whitney, W. R.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Sterne, Laurence

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Johnson, Samuel

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

12.

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

14.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Van Horne, William

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

24.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

33.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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.

49.

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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark