Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

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

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

29.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

30.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Richard Feynman

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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 most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Pickering

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.