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

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

Epictetus

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

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''

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

11.

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

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

14.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Denham, Sir John

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

25.

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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Bernard, Claude

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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.

30.

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

Morrison, Jim

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

37.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Cowper, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

48.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.