Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

- Enrico Fermi

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Socrates

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bernard, Claude

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Back, Sudie

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

19.

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

Morrison, Jim

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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 no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

29.

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

30.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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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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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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

34.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Swinnock

40.

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

Epictetus

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Ralph, Blum

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Addison, Joseph

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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