Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

- Miller, Keith

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Addison, Joseph

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Channing, William Ellery

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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)

11.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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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.

25.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Manutius

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

Lowell, James Russell

37.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ralph, Blum

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

40.

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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

43.

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

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

Starr, Lonny

45.

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

Bible

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.