Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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)

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Sophocles

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

Pickering

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Degas, Edgar

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Billings, Josh

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Bergethon, R. K.

11.

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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

18.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

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

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

32.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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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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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

49.

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

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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