Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Markham, Beryl

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

10.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

12.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

14.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Lao-tzu

18.

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

Moliere

19.

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

20.

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

Ball, Lucille

21.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

22.

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

23.

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

Smiles, Samuel

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Michener, James A.

27.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

28.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

29.

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.

30.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

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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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

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

40.

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

41.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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

Proverb, Persian

43.

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 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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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.

46.

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

47.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

48.

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

49.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce