Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Henry

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Bailey, Pearl

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Bristol, Claude M.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Moliere

11.

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Socrates

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Pickering

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

33.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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 trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

46.

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

Ball, Lucille

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.