Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Confucius

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

Bergethon, R. K.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Swinnock

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

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sterne, Laurence

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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 proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Morrison, Jim

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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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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

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Socrates

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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