Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Penn, William

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

14.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

15.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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''

18.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

19.

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

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

21.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

25.

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

26.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

28.

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

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Swinnock

31.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

32.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

36.

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

Confucius

37.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

40.

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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

46.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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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

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

49.

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

Kuehler, Jack