Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about 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

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

Socrates

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

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

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Richard Feynman

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Manutius

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Kuehler, Jack

10.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

11.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Mueller, Robert K.

13.

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

Confucius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Epictetus

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

23.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Lao-tzu

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Ralph, Blum

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

32.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.