Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

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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

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Kempis, Thomas

13.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Socrates

15.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Milton, John

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

Sophocles

19.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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

25.

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

Lao-tzu

26.

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

Samuel Johnson

27.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

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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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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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

32.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

33.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

34.

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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Moliere

40.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

44.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

48.

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

Richard Feynman

49.

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

Pickering

50.

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