Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Fuller, Thomas

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Moliere

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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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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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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.

30.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

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

Starr, Lonny

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Markham, Beryl

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

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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