Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bailey, Pearl

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.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

18.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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 is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

32.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Swinnock

41.

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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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.

43.

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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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 what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe