Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

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

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Sophocles

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bernard, Claude

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Lao-Tzu

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Socrates

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

28.

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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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Back, Sudie

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

37.

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

Proverb, Persian

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

39.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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