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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Starr, Lonny

10.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

11.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

12.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

14.

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

Addison, Joseph

15.

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

16.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

17.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

18.

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

Comte, Auguste

19.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

22.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

23.

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)

24.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

25.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Benchley, Robert

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

29.

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

Szasz, Thomas

30.

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

Bible

31.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

34.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

35.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

37.

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

Swinnock

38.

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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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

40.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

41.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

43.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ralph, Blum