Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Margaret Fuller

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bernard, Claude

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

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Enrico Fermi

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

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

Back, Sudie

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Saying

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Moliere

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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