Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ball, Lucille

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Starr, Lonny

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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 knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

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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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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bright, Grant M.

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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