Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Lao-tzu

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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)

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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