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

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Pickering

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

Socrates

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Miller, Henry

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

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Bergethon, R. K.

13.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Confucius

15.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

18.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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

22.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

29.

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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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

33.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Epictetus

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Robbins, Anthony

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Denham, Sir John

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom