Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Degas, Edgar

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

24.

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

Lao-tzu

25.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Starr, Lonny

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

32.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Cowper, William