Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

15.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Saying

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

25.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

Addison, Joseph

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Kuehler, Jack

29.

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

Haskins, Caryl

30.

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

Lao-Tzu

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Moliere

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.