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

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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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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.

20.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

25.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

28.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Richard Feynman

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

35.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

37.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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.

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Moliere

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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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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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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Moliere

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

Miller, Keith