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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Haskins, Caryl

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Ralph, Blum

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Billings, Josh

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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 is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel