Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Edison, Thomas A.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Lao-tzu

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Van Horne, William

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

19.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Moliere

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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''

29.

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

Starr, Lonny

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

31.

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

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

32.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

34.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Epictetus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Moliere

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John