Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

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

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

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

Miller, Keith

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

Mueller, Robert K.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Manutius

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Socrates

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Back, Sudie

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Cowper, William

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock