Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

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

Haskins, Caryl

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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.

Simmons, Jake

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Billings, Josh

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.