Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

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

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Kempis, Thomas

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Swinnock

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Moliere

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.