Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

10.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Ralph, Blum

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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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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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Confucius

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Starr, Lonny

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Bernard, Claude

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

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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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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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