Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Milton, John

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Penn, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Saying

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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

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De