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

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Hall, Bishop

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Saying

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Bible

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

25.

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

Swinnock

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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 becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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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 no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Moliere

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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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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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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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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt