Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Fink, David Harold

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, John F.

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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

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

Swinnock

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

Back, Sudie

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

31.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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