Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Starr, Lonny

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

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Billings, Josh

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Cowper, William

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

Socrates

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Samuel Johnson

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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