Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

Back, Sudie

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Bernard, Claude

10.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

11.

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

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

15.

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

Confucius

16.

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

17.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

18.

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

Kuehler, Jack

19.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

20.

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.

21.

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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

23.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

24.

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

25.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

26.

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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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

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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

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

Cowper, William

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

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

32.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

33.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

34.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Sterne, Laurence

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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

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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

41.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

44.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Bright, Grant M.

46.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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