Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Haskins, Caryl

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Robert, Cavett

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

10.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

13.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Van Horne, William

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

Swinnock

21.

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

23.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Saying

25.

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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Channing, William Ellery

30.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

31.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Miller, Keith

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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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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

35.

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

Manutius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

40.

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

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Traherne, Thomas

43.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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.

47.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar