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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Mueller, Robert K.

11.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Miller, Henry

14.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Confucius

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

22.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Pickering

24.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Lao-Tzu

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

30.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

31.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker