Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

- Hunt, William Morris

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Ralph, Blum

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

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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''

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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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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Einstein, Albert

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Benchley, Robert

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Billings, Josh

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

Denham, Sir John

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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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

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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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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, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Moliere

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Starr, Lonny

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman