Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I wish I knew what I know now before.

- Stewart, Rod

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Robbins, Anthony

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Morrison, Jim

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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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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Miller, Henry

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Epictetus

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

40.

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

Bible

41.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Einstein, Albert

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