Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Caine, Mark

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

16.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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 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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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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 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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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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.