Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Robert, Cavett

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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

11.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

12.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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

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

22.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

32.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Billings, Josh

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

42.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William