Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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)

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Manutius

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

13.

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

Saying

14.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Persian

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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

28.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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 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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bernard, Claude

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

38.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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 is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swinnock

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

44.

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

Billings, Josh

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph, Blum

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.