Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Epictetus

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Miller, Keith

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

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Socrates

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Richard Feynman

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Zedong, Mao

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

Castaneda, Carlos