Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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 what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

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

Billings, Josh

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

26.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

27.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

28.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

33.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Cowper, William

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

Billings, Josh

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

40.

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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Fink, David Harold

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.