Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

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

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Lao-tzu

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

Moliere

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

22.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Swinnock

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

Billings, Josh

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

Socrates

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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.

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lao-Tzu