Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

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

Robert, Cavett

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Epictetus

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Back, Sudie

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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.