Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Everett, Douglas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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 when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Proverb, Persian

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Epictetus

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.