Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Margaret Fuller

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Lao-Tzu

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 the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Socrates

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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

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smiles, Samuel

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Cowper, William

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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.