Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Penn, William

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

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Back, Sudie

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

Miller, Henry

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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'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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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