Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Churchill, Winston

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Sophocles

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Enrico Fermi

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Saying

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

25.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

35.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Socrates

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Manutius