Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Confucius

11.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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 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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Denham, Sir John

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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

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Saying

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Moliere

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

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

Enrico Fermi

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Moliere

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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