Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Billings, Josh

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smiles, Samuel

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Ralph, Blum

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

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

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

Epictetus

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Saying

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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 the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Fink, David Harold

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin