Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Markham, Beryl

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Starr, Lonny

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Epictetus

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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

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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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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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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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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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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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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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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 and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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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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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Socrates

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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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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Saying

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None of us is as smart as all of us.