Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Bible

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

Lao-tzu

10.

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

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Haskins, Caryl

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

18.

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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Epictetus

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Kuehler, Jack

25.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Moliere

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

Richard Feynman

29.

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

30.

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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Benchley, Robert

34.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

35.

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

Confucius

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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

37.

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

39.

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

Margaret Fuller

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Swinnock

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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