Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Stoppard, Tom

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Moliere

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

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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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Starr, Lonny

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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

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