Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

- Holt, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Szasz, Thomas

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Johnson, Samuel

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Einstein, Albert

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Socrates

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Socrates

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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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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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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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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Swinnock

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

Socrates

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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

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Miller, Keith

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.