Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Billings, Josh

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Saying

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

Lao-tzu

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Proverb, Persian

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Bernard, Claude

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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