Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Milton, John

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

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

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Benchley, Robert

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Back, Sudie

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Shakespeare, William

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Lao-tzu

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

43.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Miller, Keith

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering