Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

- Mumford, Ethel Watts

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Caine, Mark

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

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

11.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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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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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

21.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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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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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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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

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Starr, Lonny

40.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Miller, Keith

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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.

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

Pickering

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

45.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De