Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

- Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

Bible

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

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Smiles, Sydney

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Manutius

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Lao-Tzu

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

13.

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

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

17.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Sophocles

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Churchill, Winston

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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.

24.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

25.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Miller, Keith

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Back, Sudie

31.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Epictetus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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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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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

42.

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

Socrates

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

44.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Moliere

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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