Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fischer, Martin H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bergethon, R. K.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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

11.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Margaret Fuller

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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

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Richard Feynman

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Miller, Keith

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Socrates

33.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

50.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern