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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Robbins, Anthony

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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 is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Penn, William

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Denham, Sir John