Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Billings, Josh

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

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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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Socrates

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

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

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Caine, Mark

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Pickering

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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

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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 a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl