Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bernard, Claude

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Traherne, Thomas

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.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

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

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

Back, Sudie

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Moliere

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

10.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

11.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

16.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

25.

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

26.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Denham, Sir John

34.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

35.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Proverb, Persian

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Van Horne, William

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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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

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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 the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pickering

49.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John