Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

- Manutius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Keith

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Samuel Johnson

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

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

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

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Ball, Lucille

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Addison, Joseph

39.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.