Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Samuel Johnson

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

10.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

11.

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

Kuehler, Jack

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Miller, Keith

15.

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

Cowper, William

16.

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

Benchley, Robert

17.

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

Margaret Fuller

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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)

21.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

22.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

23.

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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

26.

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

Robbins, Anthony

27.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

28.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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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

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

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

35.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

36.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

37.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Saying

39.

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

Pickering

40.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

41.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

42.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

43.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

44.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

45.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

46.

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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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