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

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Stevens, Ray

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Miller, Henry

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Moliere

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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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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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Pickering

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Kuehler, Jack

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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