Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fink, David Harold

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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Cowper, William

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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

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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Addison, Joseph

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Margaret Fuller

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Lao-tzu

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

Comte, Auguste

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Sophocles

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Manutius