Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Sophocles

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

Lao-Tzu

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Ball, Lucille

10.

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

Back, Sudie

11.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Comte, Auguste

15.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

16.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

20.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

21.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

23.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

24.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

25.

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

26.

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

Channing, William Ellery

27.

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

Bible

28.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

29.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

31.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

32.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

33.

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

Pickering

35.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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

39.

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

Cowper, William

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

42.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

43.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

46.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

47.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Fuller, Thomas