Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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 power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Degas, Edgar

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

19.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Robbins, Anthony

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Caine, Mark

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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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 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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Proverb, Persian