Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

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

Moliere

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Swinnock

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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 matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Back, Sudie

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Drucker, Peter F.