Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

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

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benchley, Robert

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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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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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 is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Socrates

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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

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

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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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Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Pickering

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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