Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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

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

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Confucius

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Moliere

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Szasz, Thomas

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Swinnock

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.