Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

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

Milton, John

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Miller, Henry

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Back, Sudie

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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

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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 the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Fink, David Harold

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