Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Confucius

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Epictetus

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

Saying

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bible

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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

28.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Starr, Lonny

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

34.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Billings, Josh

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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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