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

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Fuller, Thomas

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Back, Sudie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Epictetus

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Pickering

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich