Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bergethon, R. K.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Swinnock

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

Bristol, Claude M.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Back, Sudie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

23.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Epictetus

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

Moliere

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

33.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Epictetus

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

46.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Socrates

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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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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