Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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

Swinnock

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Benchley, Robert

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Moliere

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

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

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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 is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Keith

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Back, Sudie

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

Moliere

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

Everett, Douglas

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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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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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad