Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Socrates

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Billings, Josh

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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

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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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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

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.