Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Socrates

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Benjamin Disraeli

18.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

19.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Ralph, Blum

26.

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

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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Swinnock

30.

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

Back, Sudie

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Billings, Josh

39.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Castaneda, Carlos