Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Swinnock

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Socrates

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

10.

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

Morrison, Jim

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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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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.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Benjamin Disraeli

18.

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

Starr, Lonny

19.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Samuel Johnson

21.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

26.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

27.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

28.

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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Kuehler, Jack

41.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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

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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

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

Moliere

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius