Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Einstein, Albert

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Moliere

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Pickering

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Manutius

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Addison, Joseph

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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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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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John