Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Keith

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Michener, James A.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Bible

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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

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

Back, Sudie

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Everett, Douglas

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.