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

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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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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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

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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

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Pickering

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

32.

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

Morrison, Jim

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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 in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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