Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Caine, Mark

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Epictetus

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Colton, Charles Caleb