Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Sophocles

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

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

Confucius

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

15.

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 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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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

30.

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

Epictetus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

33.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bernard, Claude

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.