Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Keller, Helen

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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

Socrates

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.