Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Samuel Johnson

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.

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

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

Sophocles

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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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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 long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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 does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Socrates

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Starr, Lonny

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pickering

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Billings, Josh