Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

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.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Fink, David Harold

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Ball, Lucille

11.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

21.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bernard, Claude

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Michener, James A.

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul