Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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)

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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)

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Disraeli

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

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

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Bible

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Confucius

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Caine, Mark

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Persian

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.