Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Samuel Johnson

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

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

19.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Stoppard, Tom

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

32.

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

Margaret Fuller

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Socrates

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

Epictetus

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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