Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Whipple, Edwin P.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Smiles, Sydney

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Lao-tzu

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

Kempis, Thomas

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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)

12.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

17.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

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

Swinnock

21.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

22.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

23.

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

25.

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

Robert, Cavett

26.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

27.

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

28.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

29.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Epictetus

40.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Caine, Mark

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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.

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

Traherne, Thomas

45.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell