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

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

Socrates

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Starr, Lonny

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Miller, Keith

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

Billings, Josh

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

Richard Feynman

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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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

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

Bible

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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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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sterne, Laurence