Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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.

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

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

Sophocles

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bergethon, R. K.

19.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bernard, Claude

26.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Whitney, W. R.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

40.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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 knowing that we cannot know.