Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Swinnock

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Billings, Josh

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Confucius

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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 the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Moliere

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

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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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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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

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod