Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

- Hall, Bishop

Best Quotes about Knowledge

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bright, Grant M.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Socrates

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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)

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Moliere

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Back, Sudie

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

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

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sophocles

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Ralph, Blum

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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 know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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 most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich