Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Confucius

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

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

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Markham, Beryl

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hall, Bishop

10.

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

Benchley, Robert

11.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

14.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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

17.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

21.

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

Bright, Grant M.

22.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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

Pickering

24.

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

Smiles, Samuel

25.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

26.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

27.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

28.

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

29.

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

Swinnock

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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 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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

41.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Kuehler, Jack

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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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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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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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

48.

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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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