Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Swinnock

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Saying

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)

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

Hall, Bishop

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.

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

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Enrico Fermi

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

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

Starr, Lonny

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David