Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Stevens, Ray

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Epictetus

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

10.

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

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

34.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

35.

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.

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Pickering

40.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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 know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Mills, Darius Ogden