Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

- Morrison, Jim

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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 may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Einstein, Albert

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

43.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Margaret Fuller

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

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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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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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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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