Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Swinnock

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Ralph, Blum

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Moliere

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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 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 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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Socrates

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Pickering

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Bright, Grant M.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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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