Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

- Manutius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Miller, Keith

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

45.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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.