Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Churchill, Winston

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Lao-Tzu

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

29.

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

Sophocles

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.