Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Robert, Cavett

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

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

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Samuel Johnson

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Addison, Joseph

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Miller, Keith

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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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

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Kuehler, Jack

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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