Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Caine, Mark

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

Morrison, Jim

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Coolidge, Calvin

'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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

20.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

28.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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

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

Socrates

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts