Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Degas, Edgar

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

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''

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Billings, Josh

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

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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 is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Moliere

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.