Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bernard, Claude

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lao-tzu

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

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

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

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Benchley, Robert

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Billings, Josh

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Epictetus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Degas, Edgar

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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

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.