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

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

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Addison, Joseph

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Sterne, Laurence

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Bible

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

Moliere

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Lao-tzu

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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 does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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