Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Sophocles

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Samuel Johnson

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

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

10.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

11.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

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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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.

14.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

17.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

18.

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

Miller, Keith

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

20.

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

Socrates

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

27.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

28.

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

Kuehler, Jack

29.

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

31.

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

32.

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

Starr, Lonny

33.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

34.

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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

37.

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

38.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

39.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Manutius

41.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Ball, Lucille

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Smiles, Samuel

45.

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

Moliere

46.

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

Bible

47.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Kennedy, John F.