Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Robert, Cavett

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

11.

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

Billings, Josh

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

25.

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

26.

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

Lao-tzu

28.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Addison, Joseph

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Moliere

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

Bristol, Claude M.

40.

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

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

42.

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

Miller, Keith

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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

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.