Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Billings, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

28.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Socrates

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Van Horne, William

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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