Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Fischer, Martin H.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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.

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

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

12.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Denham, Sir John

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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

16.

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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

18.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

19.

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

Bible

20.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

21.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moliere

23.

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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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

25.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

29.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Miller, Keith

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

40.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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

46.

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

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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''

48.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

49.

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.