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

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

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

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

Manutius

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

Socrates

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

10.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

11.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

18.

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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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Back, Sudie

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Bible

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Addison, Joseph

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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 never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh