Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Szasz, Thomas

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Haskins, Caryl

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Moliere

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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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 in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

29.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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 the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Morrison, Jim

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Socrates

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