Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bergethon, R. K.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Johnson, Samuel

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

Pickering

12.

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stoppard, Tom

20.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

26.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

27.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

36.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

37.

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

Socrates

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

45.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Sophocles

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann