Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Swinnock

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

19.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Ralph, Blum

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Socrates

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

Moliere

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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Eckhart, Meister

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von