Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Robert, Cavett

10.

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

Bible

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

13.

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

Enrico Fermi

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

15.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

21.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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.

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

28.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Degas, Edgar

33.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

34.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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 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

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Proverb, Persian

43.

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''

44.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

45.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mueller, Robert K.