Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

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.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

22.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Socrates

25.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Saying

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

Billings, Josh

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

30.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Traherne, Thomas

41.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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