Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Swinnock

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Proverb, Persian

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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 with it.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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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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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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 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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Fink, David Harold

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Socrates

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von