Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Whitney, W. R.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Back, Sudie

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Socrates

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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 is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

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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