Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Knowledge

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Back, Sudie

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.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robert, Cavett

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

12.

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

Miller, Keith

13.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

15.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

16.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

21.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Epictetus

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

29.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

33.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

36.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

39.

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

Morrison, Jim

40.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

41.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

44.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

45.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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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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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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

Cowper, William