Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

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

Penn, William

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

Pickering

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Saying

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Swinnock

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

Churchill, Winston

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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'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

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ralph, Blum

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

48.

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

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

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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.