Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Sophocles

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Michener, James A.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

Bible

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

12.

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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

14.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

15.

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

Haskins, Caryl

16.

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''

17.

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

Moliere

18.

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.

19.

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 be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Miller, Keith

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Smiles, Samuel

28.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Socrates

36.

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

37.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Hall, Bishop

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.