Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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.

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

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Markham, Beryl

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Moliere

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Moliere

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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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.

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.