Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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)

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

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

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

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

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''

12.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

13.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

15.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Back, Sudie

25.

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

26.

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

Samuel Johnson

27.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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.

30.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

31.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

33.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

34.

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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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

38.

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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

42.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

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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

45.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

49.

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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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