Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Manutius

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Mueller, Robert K.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Moliere

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

Kuehler, Jack

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Pickering

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Churchill, Winston

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Samuel Johnson

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Billings, Josh

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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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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