Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Keith

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

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 power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

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

Starr, Lonny

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

11.

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

18.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Penn, William

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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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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 men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Lao-Tzu

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Socrates

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

41.

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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.