Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

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

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

11.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Margaret Fuller

14.

'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

15.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

16.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

17.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

18.

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

Sophocles

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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

21.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

32.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Bailey, Pearl

36.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

42.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Moliere

48.

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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace