Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

17.

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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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Swinnock

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

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Eliot, George

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Moliere

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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