Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Bible

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Szasz, Thomas

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

11.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Saying

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

Socrates

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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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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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 ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

29.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Pickering

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

Moliere

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Stoppard, Tom

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De