Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Miller, Keith

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Morrison, Jim

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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 is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Saying

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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

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

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bible

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert