Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Confucius

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smiles, Sydney

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

19.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Van Horne, William

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

Sterne, Laurence

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

43.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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)

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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'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