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

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

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

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

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

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Enrico Fermi

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Penn, William

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

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

Back, Sudie

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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

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.