Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

11.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

13.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

14.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

15.

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)

16.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

17.

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

18.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

Moliere

25.

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

Richard Feynman

26.

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

Pickering

27.

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.

28.

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

Socrates

29.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

30.

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

Swinnock

31.

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

Starr, Lonny

32.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

33.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

36.

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

Addison, Joseph

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Channing, William Ellery

40.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

41.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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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

44.

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

Ball, Lucille

45.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

47.

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

48.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

49.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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