Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

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

Swinnock

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Moliere

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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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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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

Denham, Sir John

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

25.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Back, Sudie

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Degas, Edgar

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Morrison, Jim