Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Swinnock

Best Quotes about Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Morrison, Jim

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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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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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Margaret Fuller

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Socrates

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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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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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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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