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

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

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Enrico Fermi

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

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

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

Cowper, William

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Epictetus

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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