Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Bible

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

11.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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.

21.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

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

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

Swinnock

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

28.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Addison, Joseph

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Socrates

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

48.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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