Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Epictetus

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Lao-Tzu

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Moliere

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Cowper, William

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

Socrates

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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Bible

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato