Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

- Maitland, Frederic William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fink, David Harold

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

'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

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

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

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

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

13.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Robbins, Anthony

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Samuel Johnson

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

34.

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

Back, Sudie

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pickering

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Saying

46.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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