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

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

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

Miller, Keith

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Smiles, Samuel

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 must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Moliere

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Shakespeare, William

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

19.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Bristol, Claude M.