Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Smiles, Sydney

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Starr, Lonny

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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

Miller, Keith

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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 is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas