Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Comte, Auguste

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Comte, Auguste

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

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

Pickering

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Socrates

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Moliere

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher