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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Starr, Lonny

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Van Horne, William

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Miller, Keith

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Caine, Mark

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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