Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Milton, John

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Robert, Cavett

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.

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

Confucius

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

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

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Moliere

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Lao-tzu

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Penn, William

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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