Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Lao-tzu

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Bergethon, R. K.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Addison, Joseph

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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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

26.

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

Back, Sudie

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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.

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Margaret Fuller

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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 the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Epictetus

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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