Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Epictetus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Ralph, Blum

19.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

20.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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

Szasz, Thomas

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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 may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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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.

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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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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

30.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

32.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

33.

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

Moliere

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Back, Sudie

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bernard, Claude

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb