Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Sterne, Laurence

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Epictetus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Johnson, Samuel

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Robbins, Anthony

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Samuel Johnson

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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