Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Caine, Mark

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

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Stoppard, Tom

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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 be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Swinnock

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar