Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Miller, Keith

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Van Horne, William

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Socrates

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Bible

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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