Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Degas, Edgar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hall, Bishop

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

11.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

12.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

19.

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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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

25.

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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

27.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

28.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

Back, Sudie

31.

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

Margaret Fuller

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

38.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

39.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

40.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

45.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Samuel Johnson

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Everett, Douglas