Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Morrison, Jim

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

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)

11.

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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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

18.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

19.

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

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Saying

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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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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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

30.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

36.

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

Smiles, Sydney

37.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

42.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Confucius

44.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.