Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Socrates

10.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

11.

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

Sterne, Laurence

12.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

15.

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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)

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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

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Saying

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

25.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Smiles, 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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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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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''

32.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

38.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Swinnock

40.

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

Morrison, Jim

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Edison, Thomas A.