Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Cowper, William

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Szasz, Thomas

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

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

Moliere

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Pickering

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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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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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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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 power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.