Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

- Whipple, Edwin P.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

'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

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

Van Horne, William

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Lao-tzu

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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.

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

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

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Degas, Edgar

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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

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

Bible

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Sterne, Laurence

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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