Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bright, Grant M.

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.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Back, Sudie

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Degas, Edgar

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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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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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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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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