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

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

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

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

Sophocles

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

Van Horne, William

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Saying

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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

11.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

14.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

15.

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

Socrates

16.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

18.

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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

21.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Swinnock

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

Miller, Keith

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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

33.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

34.

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

Richard Feynman

35.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

Caine, Mark

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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 is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

44.

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

45.

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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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.