Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

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.

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

Bailey, Pearl

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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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

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

Confucius

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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 without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Moliere

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

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Bible

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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

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

Starr, Lonny

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Einstein, Albert

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.