Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Hall, Bishop

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Bible

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

10.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

Michener, James A.

13.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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

18.

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

Cowper, William

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

25.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Lao-tzu

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

34.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Miller, Keith

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

40.

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

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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 knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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 can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Socrates

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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

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod