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

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

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Socrates

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Epictetus

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Cowper, William

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Lao-tzu

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