Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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)

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Back, Sudie

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''

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Moliere

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

13.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

14.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

18.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

20.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

24.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

25.

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.

26.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

28.

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

Miller, Henry

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

34.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

36.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

38.

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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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Castaneda, Carlos

45.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Morrison, Jim

49.

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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil