Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Swinnock

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Bailey, Pearl

10.

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

11.

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

Benchley, Robert

13.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

17.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

20.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

21.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

30.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

31.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

32.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

33.

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

Traherne, Thomas

34.

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

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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.

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

40.

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

Back, Sudie

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

46.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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