Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Manutius

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

Cowper, William

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

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Miller, Keith

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

Confucius

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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

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Saying

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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

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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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