Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

- Hunt, William Morris

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Back, Sudie

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Socrates

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

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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 becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Moliere

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Penn, William

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Addison, Joseph

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Miller, Henry

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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 is the only elegance.