Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Szasz, Thomas

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Stevens, Ray

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

Confucius

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Pickering

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stoppard, Tom

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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