Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Sophocles

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Sterne, Laurence

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

10.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

12.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Moliere

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lao-tzu

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

20.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

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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

23.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

24.

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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

28.

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

Socrates

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

31.

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

Traherne, Thomas

32.

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

Kuehler, Jack

33.

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

34.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

35.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Confucius

40.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.