Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

- Enrico Fermi

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Benjamin Disraeli

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

10.

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

Smiles, Sydney

11.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

12.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

13.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

14.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

16.

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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Saying

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

22.

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

23.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

25.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

33.

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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

35.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

Mill, John Stuart

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

44.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

45.

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

Ball, Lucille

46.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.