Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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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

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Moliere

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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Billings, Josh

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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)

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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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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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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 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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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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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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Moliere

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

Confucius