Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Whipple, Edwin P.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Saying

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

Socrates

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Billings, Josh

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

Miller, Keith

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

Sophocles

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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

Confucius

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Confucius

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

Socrates

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

34.

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

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bernard, Claude

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

40.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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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

43.

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.

44.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie