Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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.

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)

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Swinnock

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

11.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

12.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

16.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Margaret Fuller

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

20.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Manutius

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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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''

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

42.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

43.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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

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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)