Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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)

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

Richard Feynman

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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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

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

31.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Moliere

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

Churchill, Winston

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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, 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 power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Whitney, W. R.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Lao-tzu

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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