Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Benchley, Robert

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Starr, Lonny

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

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Van Horne, William

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Socrates

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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