Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Manutius

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

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

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

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Milton, John

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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Moliere

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Lao-tzu

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar