Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Everett, Douglas

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

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

Billings, Josh

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Bible

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

Kuehler, Jack

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph, Blum

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Epictetus

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sophocles

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

Enrico Fermi

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I know myself, but that is all.