Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Einstein, Albert

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Saying

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

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