Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Michener, James A.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Smiles, Samuel

18.

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

Margaret Fuller

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Starr, Lonny

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Epictetus

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts