Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Szasz, Thomas

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Back, Sudie

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Swinnock

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

32.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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 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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.