Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

- Whitney, W. R.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fink, David Harold

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

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.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Traherne, Thomas

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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 ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

Saying

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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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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.

27.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

39.

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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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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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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Morrison, Jim

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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