Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Churchill, Winston

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

30.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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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

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

Back, Sudie

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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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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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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl