Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I wish I knew what I know now before.

- Stewart, Rod

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Swinnock

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Moliere

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Bible

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

Bristol, Claude M.

25.

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Van Horne, William

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.