Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Bible

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

Mill, John Stuart

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

10.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

12.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

15.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

19.

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

Stoppard, Tom

20.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

25.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

26.

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

Sophocles

27.

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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Socrates

33.

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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

35.

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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

37.

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

Starr, Lonny

38.

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

Epictetus

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

Billings, Josh

41.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

42.

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

Swinnock

43.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

45.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

47.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Smiles, Samuel

49.

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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.