Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Epictetus

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Billings, Josh

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

19.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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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.

21.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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 what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Sterne, Laurence

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Swinnock

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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.

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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

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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

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Miller, Keith

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Smiles, Samuel