Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Socrates

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Socrates

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

Billings, Josh

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

Moliere

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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