Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Margaret Fuller

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Bible

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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

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

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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