Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Samuel Johnson

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

Margaret Fuller

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Comte, Auguste

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Back, Sudie

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

29.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Socrates

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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.

43.

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

44.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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

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

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