Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Kempis, Thomas

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Churchill, Winston

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Manutius

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Confucius

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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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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

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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)

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

29.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

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