Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Michener, James A.

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.

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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

Enrico Fermi

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitney, W. R.

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Confucius

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

Saying

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

Starr, Lonny

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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 knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles