Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

- Morrison, Jim

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Richard Feynman

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

Sophocles

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

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

Confucius

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Moliere

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Miller, Keith

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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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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Lao-tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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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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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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Moliere

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.