Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Pickering

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

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

Manutius

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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.

10.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

12.

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

Socrates

14.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Denham, Sir John

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Fink, David Harold

32.

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.