Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Socrates

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Saying

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

10.

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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

12.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

15.

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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

17.

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

Bible

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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

20.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

21.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

22.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Richard Feynman

27.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

28.

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

Kennedy, John F.

29.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Enrico Fermi

33.

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

Caine, Mark

34.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

35.

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

Whitney, W. R.

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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.

39.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

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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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

43.

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

Degas, Edgar

44.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

45.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

47.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin