Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Proverb, Spanish

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Proverb, Persian

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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

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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Confucius

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Lao-Tzu

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Epictetus

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

Moliere

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

Johnson, Samuel

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Robert, Cavett