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

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

Confucius

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Lao-Tzu

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 ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

10.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

11.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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.

13.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

14.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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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 is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

25.

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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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

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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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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Everett, Douglas

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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.

35.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Van Horne, William

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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