Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Bernard, Claude

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Socrates

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

14.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

15.

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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

17.

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

Ball, Lucille

18.

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

Socrates

19.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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

24.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

25.

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

Morrison, Jim

26.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

27.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Epictetus

29.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

30.

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

Billings, Josh

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

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

37.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Miller, Henry

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

Swinnock

45.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

50.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.