Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Penn, William

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ralph, Blum

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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

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

12.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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

Sophocles

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl