Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

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

Socrates

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moliere

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

Saying

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

Socrates

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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

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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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)

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

Miller, Keith

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

Epictetus

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.