Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Confucius

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Cowper, William

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Moliere

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Epictetus

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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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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Markham, Beryl

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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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.