If you love knowledge, you will be a master of knowledge. What you have come to know, pursue by exercise; what you have not learned, seek to add to your knowledge, for it is as reprehensible to hear a profitable saying and not grasp it as to be offered a good gift by one’s friends and not accept it. Believe that many precepts are better than much wealth, for wealth quickly fails us, but precepts abide through all time.
—Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
Don’t talk too much, because your ignorance is greater than your knowledge.
—Spanish Proverb
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
—Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American Writer, Futurist
What’s scary in life is not what people know (or don’t know), but what they know that ain’t so.
—Satchel Paige (1906–82) American Baseball Player
He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
—Philip Sidney (1554–86) English Soldier Poet, Courtier
To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am—not with what we know—but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored.
—John Glenn (1921–2006) American Pilot, Astronaut, Politician
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–91) Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer, Novelist, Short Story Writer
I am not young enough to know everything.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion.
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English Polymath, Philosopher, Sociologist, Political Theorist
In a crisis of choice when you are perplexed and do not know which way to go, it might be good to consult several persons.
—Thomas Keating (1923–2018) American Trappist Monk
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
—J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
—Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American Poet, Translator, Critic
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English Polymath, Philosopher, Sociologist, Political Theorist
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.
—Viktor Frankl (1905–97) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
He is strong who conquers others; He who conquers himself is mighty.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
You cannot open a book without learning something.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Knowledge has, in our time, triumphed, and is triumphing, over prejudice and over bigotry. The civilized and Christian world is fast learning the great lesson, that difference of nation does not imply necessary hostility, and that all contact need not be war. The whole world is becoming a common field for intellect to act in. Energy of mind, genius, power, wheresoever it exists may speak out in any tongue, and the world will hear it.
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
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