Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

- Locke, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Milton, John

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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.

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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

18.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

20.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

22.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

27.

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

Moliere

28.

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

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

Epictetus

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

40.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Einstein, Albert

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Bristol, Claude M.