Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Lao-tzu

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Bible

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Socrates

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

34.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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 end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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

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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita