Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Swinnock

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Lao-tzu

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Bright, Grant M.

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sophocles

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.