Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Lao-tzu

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Degas, Edgar

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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'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

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

Moliere

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Penn, William

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

Castaneda, Carlos

37.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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