Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

Socrates

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

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

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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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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

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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.

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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Swinnock

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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

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Sophocles

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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