Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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 always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Billings, Josh

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra