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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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.

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

Van Horne, William

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

Ralph, Blum

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

15.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Epictetus

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Bible

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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