Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

- Manutius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Cowper, William

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Johnson, 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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

29.

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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Socrates

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Richard Feynman

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart