Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Bible

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Denham, Sir John

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Swinnock

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

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Lao-tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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

35.

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

Pickering

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

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Robbins, Anthony

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

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

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Billings, Josh