Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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''

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)

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

17.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

18.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

19.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Penn, William

22.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

28.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

30.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

31.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

33.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

34.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

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

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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 must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

43.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

44.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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 of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

48.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

49.

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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis