Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

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

Lao-Tzu

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

10.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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

12.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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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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

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

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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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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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Szasz, Thomas

31.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

32.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

35.

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

Comte, Auguste

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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

38.

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

Epictetus

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

40.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

48.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Addison, Joseph