Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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

Epictetus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lao-Tzu

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

10.

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

11.

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

12.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Saying

18.

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

Haskins, Caryl

19.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

23.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

24.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

28.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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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

31.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

32.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

33.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.