Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

- Abbott, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Bible

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Robbins, Anthony

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Swinnock

12.

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.

13.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

14.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

16.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

17.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

19.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

20.

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

Confucius

21.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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

24.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

25.

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

Traherne, Thomas

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

'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 is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

29.

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

Sterne, Laurence

30.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

31.

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

32.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Starr, Lonny

35.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

38.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

39.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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.

47.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

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

Morrison, Jim

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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