Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bernard, Claude

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bible

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Lao-Tzu

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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

Pickering

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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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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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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

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Fink, David Harold

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Michener, James A.

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

Bible

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Socrates