Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Kuehler, Jack

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.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Manutius

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is 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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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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)

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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.

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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