Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Kuehler, Jack

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pickering

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Haskins, Caryl

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Saying

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Moliere

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

Billings, Josh

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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 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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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