Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Einstein, Albert

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

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

Morrison, Jim

11.

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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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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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

28.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

29.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

30.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Starr, Lonny

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

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

46.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Moliere

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John