Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Swinnock

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Miller, Henry

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lao-tzu

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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

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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Swinnock

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

33.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

34.

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

Moliere

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Denham, Sir John

38.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

43.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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.