Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Michener, James A.

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

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Kennedy, John F.

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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