Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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 the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Miller, Henry

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

Castaneda, Carlos

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Socrates

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

22.

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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Lao-tzu

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Margaret Fuller

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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

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Saying

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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