Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

- Moustakas, Clark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Swinnock

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

Sophocles

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

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

12.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Cowper, William

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Richard Feynman

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Moliere

43.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

45.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.