Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

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

Moliere

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lao-tzu

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Socrates

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Swinnock

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Fink, David Harold

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

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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)