Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Miller, Keith

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Benchley, Robert

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Epictetus

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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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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Miller, Keith

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats