Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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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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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

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Coolidge, Calvin

29.

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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Swinnock

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.