Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Miller, Henry

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

12.

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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Billings, Josh

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von