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

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moliere

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Proverb, Spanish

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Traherne, Thomas

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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 knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

Margaret Fuller

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Richard Feynman

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Miller, Henry