Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

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

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

Socrates

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Bible

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Addison, Joseph

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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, 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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.