Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Moliere

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

Addison, Joseph

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Socrates

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

11.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

17.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

18.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

29.

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.

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

34.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

41.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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