Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lowell, James Russell

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Socrates

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Swinnock

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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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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.

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine