Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

- Hunt, William Morris

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Morrison, Jim

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

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)

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Proverb, Persian

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Everett, Douglas