Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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)

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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.

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

Socrates

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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Margaret Fuller

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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

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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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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 knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Van Horne, William

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

36.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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