Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Van Horne, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Hall, Bishop

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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Churchill, Winston

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cowper, William

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Socrates

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

Epictetus

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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

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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von