Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Sterne, Laurence

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

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

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cowper, William

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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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.

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

32.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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 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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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.