Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Penn, William

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Van Horne, William

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bergethon, R. K.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Enrico Fermi

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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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

Swinnock

16.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Saying

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

22.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

24.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

25.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fink, David Harold

32.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

33.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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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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

36.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

37.

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.

38.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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

45.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

48.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.