Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

- Carter, Angela

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Proverb, Spanish

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Addison, Joseph

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Cowper, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Bible

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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.

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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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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pickering

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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Back, Sudie

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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