Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

All knowledge is ambiguous.

- Habgood, J. S.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

11.

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

Margaret Fuller

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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

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Socrates

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

22.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

24.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Epictetus

32.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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 of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

38.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

41.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

44.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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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