Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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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

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, 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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.