Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

- Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Best Quotes about Knowledge

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Confucius

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

11.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

12.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Szasz, Thomas

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

22.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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 is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Saying

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Miller, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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None of us is as smart as all of us.