Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Sterne, Laurence

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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.

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

Epictetus

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Socrates

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

33.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Lao-tzu

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett