Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Moliere

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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)

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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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