Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Margaret Fuller

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ball, Lucille

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Moliere

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

Moliere

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Back, Sudie

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

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

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

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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

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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pickering

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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