Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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.

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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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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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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Epictetus

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Cowper, William

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Bible

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von