Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Margaret Fuller

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Moliere

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Starr, Lonny

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Everett, Douglas

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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 most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Pickering

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Bristol, Claude M.