Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Denham, Sir John

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

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Churchill, Winston

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Socrates

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

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

Milton, John

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Pickering

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Addison, Joseph

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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