Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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.

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.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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 God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Socrates

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Socrates

27.

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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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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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

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

Penn, William

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Ralph, Blum

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Pickering

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

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

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter