Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Markham, Beryl

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Samuel Johnson

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Getty, J. Paul

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

10.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

11.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Epictetus

15.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

17.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

20.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

23.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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

Miller, Henry

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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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

32.

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

Bernard, Claude

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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 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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Socrates

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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

42.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

43.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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.