Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Swinnock

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

11.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

12.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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

14.

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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

18.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

19.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Moliere

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Epictetus

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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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

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

34.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

35.

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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Miller, Keith

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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 conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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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

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine