Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Van Horne, William

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

Pickering

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Socrates

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

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

Moliere

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

Smiles, Samuel

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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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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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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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose