Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Miller, Henry

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 is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

31.

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

Back, Sudie

32.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

39.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

40.

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

Bible

41.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

43.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus