Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

- Hunt, William Morris

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Traherne, Thomas

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

10.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

11.

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

Samuel Johnson

12.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

13.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Socrates

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

Einstein, Albert

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

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

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William