Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Brown, Francis Yeats

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Bible

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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)

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Lao-Tzu

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Margaret Fuller

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

18.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

19.

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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

23.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

24.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Socrates

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bernard, Claude

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

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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

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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.

38.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Miller, Henry

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

43.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Moliere

48.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.