Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Einstein, Albert

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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.

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smiles, Sydney

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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