Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fink, David Harold

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Back, Sudie

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Confucius

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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 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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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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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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Swinnock

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Moliere

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

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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