Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Bible

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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

11.

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

Enrico Fermi

12.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

14.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Socrates

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Confucius

20.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

29.

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

Moliere

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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.

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis