Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Michener, James A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Cowper, William

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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

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

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Moliere

11.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Samuel Johnson

17.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

19.

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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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.

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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Pickering

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Billings, Josh

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Addison, Joseph

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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