Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Epictetus

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

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Moliere

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Einstein, Albert

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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)

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

Swinnock

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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.

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

Pickering

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

Moliere

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

Socrates

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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