Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Morrison, Jim

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Richard Feynman

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

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

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

13.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

19.

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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

24.

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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Confucius

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

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

Bernard, Claude

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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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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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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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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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Back, Sudie

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

Van Horne, William

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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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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

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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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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose