Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Moliere

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.