Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Margaret Fuller

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Bible

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Mill, John Stuart

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Socrates

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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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

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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

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Billings, Josh

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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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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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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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