Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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)

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Miller, Henry

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

12.

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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Socrates

15.

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

Moliere

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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

18.

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.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Swinnock

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Stoppard, Tom

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

33.

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

Miller, Keith

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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 long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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

Smiles, Sydney

44.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David