Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Castaneda, Carlos

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

'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

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

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Comte, Auguste

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

10.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

11.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

13.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

14.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

15.

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Benchley, Robert

17.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

20.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Epictetus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

24.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

28.

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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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

31.

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

Manutius

32.

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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

41.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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 knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Caine, Mark

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

49.

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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan