Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Penn, William

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

10.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

11.

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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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

13.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

14.

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

15.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

18.

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

Moliere

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

24.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

27.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

28.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

30.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

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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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

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

36.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Bergethon, R. K.

38.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

40.

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

41.

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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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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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

46.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

47.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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