Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Saying

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

Cowper, William

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.

Charron, Pierre

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Pickering

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

Churchill, Winston

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Johnson, Samuel

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Van Horne, William

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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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

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Back, Sudie

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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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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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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Socrates

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman