Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Ray

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Samuel Johnson

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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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

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Addison, Joseph

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Margaret Fuller

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Smiles, Sydney

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Epictetus

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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