Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Robert, Cavett

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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)

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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Back, Sudie

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Sophocles

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Margaret Fuller

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Lao-Tzu

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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