Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

- Nerval, Gerard De

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Caine, Mark

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

Shakespeare, William

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Saying

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Stevens, Ray

15.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

19.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

20.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Moliere

22.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

24.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

25.

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.

26.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

27.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bible

31.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

33.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Bernard, Claude

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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

41.

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.

42.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

43.

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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

46.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett