Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who does not know one thing knows another

- Proverb, Kenyan

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Saying

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

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

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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

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

Billings, Josh

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Confucius

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Miller, Keith

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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, 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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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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 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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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

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.