Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Benchley, Robert

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Johnson, Samuel

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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

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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Socrates

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Milton, John

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von