Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Best Quotes about Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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.

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

Mill, John Stuart

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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)

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Saying

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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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

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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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 yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Socrates

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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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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan