Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Johnson, Samuel

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

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

Miller, Keith

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

Lao-tzu

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Epictetus

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

31.

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

Bible

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Comte, Auguste

43.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Moliere

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord