Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Robbins, Anthony

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Benchley, Robert

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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.

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

Bible

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Saying

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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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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

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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

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

Moliere

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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Proverb, Persian

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Smiles, Sydney