Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

- Fischer, Martin H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Fuller, Thomas

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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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

11.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

16.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

17.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Cowper, William

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Moliere

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

30.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

31.

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

33.

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

Proverb, Persian

34.

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

Miller, Keith

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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 a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

43.

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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

45.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

46.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

47.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

48.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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.