Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Richard Feynman

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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

43.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lao-tzu

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Cowper, William

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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