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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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 much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Edison, Thomas A.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bible

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Confucius

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Ralph, Blum

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Swinnock

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Epictetus

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

Margaret Fuller

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.