Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fink, David Harold

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sophocles

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Van Horne, William

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Socrates

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Socrates

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

44.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.