Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Socrates

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.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Van Horne, William

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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.

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Manutius

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Penn, William

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

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

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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