Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

'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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Cowper, William

17.

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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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ralph, Blum

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

25.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Smiles, Sydney

33.

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

34.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

35.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

43.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

44.

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.

45.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt