Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lowell, James Russell

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

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

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Mill, John Stuart

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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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

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

18.

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

Socrates

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Mueller, Robert K.

28.

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

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Addison, Joseph

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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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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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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 a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Szasz, Thomas

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen