Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fink, David Harold

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

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

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.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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)

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benchley, Robert

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

10.

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

11.

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

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

Fink, David Harold

13.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

14.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

18.

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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

25.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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

27.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

28.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

29.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Swinnock

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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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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

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

35.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Billings, Josh

42.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

43.

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

44.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

45.

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

Smiles, Samuel

46.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

47.

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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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

50.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern