Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Keith

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

Chesterfield, Lord

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Billings, Josh

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

12.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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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.

Cronenberg, David

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

Pickering

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.