Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Benchley, Robert

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Swinnock

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

Starr, Lonny

15.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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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 is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

22.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

24.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Saying

26.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Stevens, Ray

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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

34.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

35.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

36.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

38.

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

Moliere

39.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

43.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim