Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Ball, Lucille

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Richard Feynman

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

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

10.

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

Everett, Douglas

11.

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

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

12.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

13.

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

Morrison, Jim

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Mill, John Stuart

17.

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

Socrates

18.

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

Margaret Fuller

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

21.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

22.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

Stoppard, Tom

24.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

25.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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.

28.

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

Traherne, Thomas

29.

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

Saying

30.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

31.

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

32.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

33.

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

34.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

35.

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

36.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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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

38.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Bristol, Claude M.

41.

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

Manutius

42.

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

Lao-Tzu

43.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

46.

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

47.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

48.

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

Swinnock

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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

Coolidge, Calvin