Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

- Starr, Lonny

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Swinnock

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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 of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Michener, James A.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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)

11.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

22.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

Benchley, Robert

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

28.

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

Enrico Fermi

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Penn, William

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Markham, Beryl

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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