Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

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 knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Billings, Josh

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Saying

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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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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Socrates

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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 is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar