Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Fink, David Harold

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

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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 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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

20.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

33.

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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

37.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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