Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about 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

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Richard Feynman

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

Confucius

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

17.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Addison, Joseph

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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.

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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