Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Miller, Keith

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Castaneda, Carlos

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Confucius

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Socrates

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

Moliere

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

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

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Saying

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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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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Starr, Lonny

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Churchill, Winston

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.