Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Morrison, Jim

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Samuel Johnson

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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

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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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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

42.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caine, Mark