Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Penn, William

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kennedy, John F.

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Margaret Fuller

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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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''

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swinnock

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Miller, Keith

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.