Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Moliere

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Margaret Fuller

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

12.

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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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Moliere

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Van Horne, William

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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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Hall, Bishop

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

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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

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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.