Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Persian

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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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Margaret Fuller

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

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Swinnock

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.