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

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.

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Epictetus

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Proverb, Spanish

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Kennedy, John F.

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

21.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

28.

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

Bible

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

31.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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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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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

43.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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

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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

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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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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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