Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Swinnock

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

43.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray