Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Eliot, George

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.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Addison, Joseph

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bible

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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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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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 power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes