Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

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

Degas, Edgar

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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)

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Shakespeare, 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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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

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Moliere

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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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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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Fischer, Martin 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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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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