Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Fischer, Martin H.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Van Horne, William

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Caine, Mark

11.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

12.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

20.

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

21.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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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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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

29.

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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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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''

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

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

Miller, Henry

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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)

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Bible

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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