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

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

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

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

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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

10.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

11.

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

Fink, David Harold

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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)

15.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

17.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

18.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

22.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

23.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

24.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

25.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

30.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

32.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

33.

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

Szasz, Thomas

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

36.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

39.

'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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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

41.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

43.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

44.

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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

46.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

48.

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