Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Bible

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Margaret Fuller

26.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

27.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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 power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

31.

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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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. 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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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Miller, Keith