Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Robert, Cavett

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Socrates

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

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

10.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

11.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

12.

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

Lao-tzu

13.

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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

16.

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

Van Horne, William

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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

18.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Samuel Johnson

20.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Penn, William

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

Smiles, Sydney

26.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

30.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Bible

35.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

40.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

41.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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

43.

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

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Whitney, W. R.

46.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow