Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Battista, Orlando A.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

11.

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

12.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

13.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

14.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Socrates

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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 not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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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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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Mueller, Robert K.

50.

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