Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Traherne, Thomas

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Lao-tzu

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Degas, Edgar

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

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Socrates

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Back, Sudie

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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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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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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