Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Comte, Auguste

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.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lao-tzu

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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)

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Van Horne, William

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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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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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lao-Tzu