Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

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

Penn, William

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

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

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Moliere

11.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Mill, John Stuart

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

23.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

34.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

39.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Lao-tzu

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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