Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Socrates

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

11.

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

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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.

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

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bible

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

Fink, David Harold

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Hall, Bishop

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Morrison, Jim

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas