Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Sophocles

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Moliere

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Socrates

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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