Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

10.

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

11.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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

17.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

18.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

19.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

24.

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

Saying

26.

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

28.

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

Pickering

29.

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.

30.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Everett, Douglas

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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, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

42.

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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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

45.

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

Proverb, Persian

46.

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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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

49.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

50.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman