Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

13.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

14.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Ball, Lucille

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Miller, Keith

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Back, Sudie

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

45.

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

Moliere

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Saying

50.

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