Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

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

Caine, Mark

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Moliere

17.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

18.

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

Moliere

19.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

24.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

29.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

34.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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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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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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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Epictetus

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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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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.

50.

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

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