Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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)

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

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)

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

12.

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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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

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

18.

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

Saying

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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 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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Swinnock

25.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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.

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Moliere

35.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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

50.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine