Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fink, David Harold

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

12.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

28.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Van Horne, William

30.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

32.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

33.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

34.

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

Pickering

35.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Moliere

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

43.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter