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

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Kennedy, John F.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Denham, Sir John

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

11.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Confucius

13.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

14.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

16.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Miller, Henry

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'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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

23.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

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 a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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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

27.

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

Bible

28.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

29.

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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

35.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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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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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.

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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 the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Addison, Joseph