Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

- Roger, Rutherford D.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Milton, John

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

Einstein, Albert

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Bierce, Ambrose

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Billings, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Fuller

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

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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