Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Comte, Auguste

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

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

10.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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)

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

15.

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

24.

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

Moliere

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

Socrates

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

28.

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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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.

32.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

33.

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

Moliere

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

40.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.