Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Whitney, W. R.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Socrates

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

14.

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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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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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.

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

Epictetus

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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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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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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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

31.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

35.

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

Ralph, Blum

37.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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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

45.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu