Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

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

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

Lao-Tzu

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

10.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

15.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

16.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

17.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Penn, William

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Szasz, Thomas

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

28.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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 always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Comte, Auguste

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Enrico Fermi

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Swinnock

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

Confucius

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

Channing, William Ellery

43.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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

Ralph, Blum

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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