Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

- Roger, Rutherford D.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mill, John Stuart

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Traherne, Thomas

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Epictetus

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

Billings, Josh

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.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

11.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Smiles, Samuel

13.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

14.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

15.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

17.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

18.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

25.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

26.

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

Enrico Fermi

27.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

28.

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

Margaret Fuller

29.

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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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

32.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

33.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

34.

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

Milton, John

35.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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

39.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bergethon, R. K.

42.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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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

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

Socrates

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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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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

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

Channing, William Ellery

50.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred