Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Comte, Auguste

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

14.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Bristol, Claude M.

16.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

20.

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

Moliere

21.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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 wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

27.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

29.

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

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

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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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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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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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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Socrates

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David