Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Epictetus

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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''

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Epictetus

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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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

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pickering

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert