Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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

Sterne, Laurence

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

10.

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

Richard Feynman

11.

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

12.

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 degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

18.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

19.

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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

28.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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 has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

32.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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