Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Socrates

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Van Horne, William

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sophocles

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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 despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Back, Sudie

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