Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Castaneda, Carlos

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Epictetus

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Penn, William

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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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 only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Epictetus

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Van Horne, William

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

Moliere

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Socrates

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

Smiles, Samuel

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.