Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

14.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

15.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Socrates

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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 fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Back, Sudie

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

Socrates

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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

39.

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

Richard Feynman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Traherne, Thomas

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis