Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

13.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

16.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swinnock

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

19.

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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

25.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Socrates

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

28.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

29.

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

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Moliere

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Churchill, Winston

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace