Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Samuel Johnson

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Caine, Mark

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.