Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

- Macaulay, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Ball, Lucille

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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 degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Moliere

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.