Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Swinnock

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Swinnock

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Starr, Lonny

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Mill, John Stuart

15.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

21.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Miller, Keith

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

Haskins, Caryl

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

30.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Caine, Mark

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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Richard Feynman

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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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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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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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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