Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

- Bernard, Claude

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Confucius

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

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Churchill, Winston

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

Johnson, Samuel

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

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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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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Van Horne, William

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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