Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bernard, Claude

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

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)

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

Billings, Josh

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

Socrates

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

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

Michener, James A.

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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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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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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

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Confucius

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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

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

Van Horne, William

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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

26.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richard Feynman

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

Benchley, Robert

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats