Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

- Whipple, Edwin P.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Saying

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

11.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

12.

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

Michener, James A.

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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

14.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Szasz, Thomas

16.

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

Confucius

17.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Van Horne, William

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

21.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

22.

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

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

26.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

27.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

30.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Lao-tzu

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

35.

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

36.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

37.

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

Kennedy, John F.

38.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

39.

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

Morrison, Jim

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

43.

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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

47.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

50.

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

Mill, John Stuart