Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Caine, Mark

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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant 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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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Moliere

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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