Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

11.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Billings, Josh

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

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 think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

17.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

18.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

33.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

42.

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

Socrates

46.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas