Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

11.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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 knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Richard Feynman

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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'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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.

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

Cowper, William

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

29.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

31.

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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Moliere

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris