Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

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

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moliere

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

Milton, John

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

10.

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

Smiles, Samuel

11.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

22.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

27.

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

28.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Saying

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

34.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

35.

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

Degas, Edgar

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

38.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

39.

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

Addison, Joseph

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Epictetus

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