Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Whipple, Edwin P.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Sophocles

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

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

Lao-tzu

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

Billings, Josh

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Miller, Keith

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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

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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Lao-Tzu

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Pickering

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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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