Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

10.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

11.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Fink, David Harold

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Haskins, Caryl

25.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Addison, Joseph

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

28.

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.

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

30.

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

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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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

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

42.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Penn, William

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

46.

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

Back, Sudie

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De