Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bible

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Saying

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

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)

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

10.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

11.

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

12.

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

Channing, William Ellery

13.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

15.

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.

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

18.

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

19.

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

Morrison, Jim

20.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

21.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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

23.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

28.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Stoppard, Tom

30.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

31.

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

32.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

33.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

34.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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

Swinnock

36.

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

37.

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

Kuehler, Jack

38.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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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

43.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

44.

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

Epictetus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Socrates