Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Bible

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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 is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

11.

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

12.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

15.

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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

17.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

23.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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None of us is as smart as all of us.