Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Penn, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

10.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

11.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

13.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

20.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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.

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad