Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Billings, Josh

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Castaneda, Carlos

14.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

22.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

23.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

26.

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

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

30.

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

31.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

33.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

34.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Ralph, Blum

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

41.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

42.

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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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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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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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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Mueller, Robert K.

49.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.