Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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.

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

Smiles, Sydney

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

10.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

11.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

15.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

25.

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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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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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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Socrates

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

Miller, Keith

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

38.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moliere

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Billings, Josh

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