Knowledge sayings | Knowledge quotes | Knowledge mottos
Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use. - Swinnock
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love. - Thomas Szasz
They are so knowing, that they know nothing. - Terence
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Henry David Thoreau
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so. - Mark Twain
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use. - Source Unknown
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. - Source Unknown
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt. - William Van Horne
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. - Marquis De Vauvenargues
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. - John Archibald Wheeler
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. - W. R. Whitney
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. - Mao Zedong
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. - Joseph Addison
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. - Sudie Back
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. - Francis Bacon
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. - Lucille Ball
It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know. - R. K. Bergethon
And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32] - Bible
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. - Josh Billings
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. - Francis Yeats Brown
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Sandara Carey
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. - William Ellery Channing
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. - Lord Chesterfield
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. - Charles Caleb Colton
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. - Auguste Comte
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. - Confucius
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. - William Cowper
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. - David Cronenberg
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. - Peter F. Drucker
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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. - Epictetus
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. - Austin Farrar
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country! - Benjamin Franklin
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. - Kahlil Gibran
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. - Andre Gide
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. - Caryl Haskins
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life. - Adolf Hitler
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. - Horace
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. - William Morris Hunt
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. - William James
Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it. - Samuel Johnson
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. - Carl Jung
It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything. - Jack Kuehler
Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life. - Thomas B. Macaulay
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. - Frederic William Maitland
It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare. - Manutius
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. - John Stuart Mill
The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him. - Keith Miller
A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success. - Darius Ogden Mills
There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors. - Jim Morrison
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. - Clark Moustakas
Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. - Robert K. Mueller
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. - Hector Hugh Munro
And all your future lies beneath your hat. - John Oldham
Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything. - Pickering
He who does not know one thing knows another - Kenyan Proverb
It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it. - Persian Proverb
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. - Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. - Anthony Robbins
We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. - Rutherford D. Roger
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. - Jake Simmons
No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would. - Lonny Starr
The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know. - Ray Stevens
I wish I knew what I know now before. - Rod Stewart
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. - Tom Stoppard
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