Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pickering

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

Bible

18.

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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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.

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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

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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''

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

34.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Caine, Mark

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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 must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Milton, John

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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