Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lao-Tzu

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''

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Sophocles

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Channing, William Ellery

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.