Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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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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

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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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

21.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

34.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Van Horne, William

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

Bible

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

Robert, Cavett

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.