Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Moliere

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Swinnock

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

12.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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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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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

21.

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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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Lao-tzu

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Sterne, Laurence