Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

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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

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Denham, Sir John

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Socrates

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

33.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Ralph, Blum

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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.

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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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.