Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

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

Miller, Keith

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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)

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

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Bible

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

Margaret Fuller

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Lao-Tzu

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lao-tzu

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Socrates

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.