Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Cowper, William

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Epictetus

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

10.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

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

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

15.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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.

20.

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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Billings, Josh

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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.

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

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

46.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Epictetus