Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Cowper, William

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Epictetus

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Margaret Fuller

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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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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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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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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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

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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