Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Everett, Douglas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Starr, Lonny

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

19.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Fink, David Harold

28.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Cowper, William

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

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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.

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

Billings, Josh

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow