Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Szasz, Thomas

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Kennedy, John F.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Saying

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

Benchley, Robert

10.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

11.

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

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

12.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Comte, Auguste

15.

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

Kuehler, Jack

16.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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

25.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

26.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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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 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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

32.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Starr, Lonny

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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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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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 always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Sophocles

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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