Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Penn, William

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

Saying

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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.

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Swinnock

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Bible

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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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