Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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)

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Epictetus

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

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Sterne, Laurence

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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)

10.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Enrico Fermi

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

15.

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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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

17.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

18.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

19.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

20.

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

21.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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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

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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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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 always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Back, Sudie

41.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

46.

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

Bible

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar