Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

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

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Benjamin Disraeli

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

12.

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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

14.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

17.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

24.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

36.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Moliere

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Castaneda, Carlos

45.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Ralph, Blum

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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