Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Swinnock

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Pickering

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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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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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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 is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Addison, Joseph

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