Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

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

Milton, John

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Socrates

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

10.

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

Morrison, Jim

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Confucius

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moliere

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Swinnock

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

34.

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

Proverb, Persian

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Socrates

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.