Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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

Bernard, Claude

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

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.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Benchley, Robert

10.

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

11.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

12.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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 when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

23.

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

Caine, Mark

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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

25.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Miller, Keith

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

34.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

42.

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

44.

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

Moliere

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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

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Socrates

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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