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

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

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

16.

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

Penn, William

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

20.

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

Cowper, William

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Back, Sudie

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Socrates

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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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 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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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

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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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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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