Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

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

Back, Sudie

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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

Socrates

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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epictetus

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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 only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Samuel Johnson

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

39.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith