Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Bierce, Ambrose

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand 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)

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Channing, William Ellery

22.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

28.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Morrison, Jim

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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

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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'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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

44.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

49.

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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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