Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Every animal knows more than you do.

- Proverb, Native American

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Chinese

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bible

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Saying

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Stoppard, Tom

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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