Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lao-tzu

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Fischer, Martin H.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Epictetus

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Penn, William

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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

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Confucius

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Caine, Mark

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Churchill, Winston

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Castaneda, Carlos