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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Swinnock

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.

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

Moliere

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

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

Back, Sudie

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Miller, Keith

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Richard Feynman

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

Epictetus

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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

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Socrates

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Denham, Sir John

36.

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

Billings, Josh

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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 is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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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.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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