Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Confucius

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Enrico Fermi

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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)

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Moliere

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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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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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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Bible

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!