Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ball, Lucille

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Confucius

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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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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Swinnock

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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

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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.