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

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

Socrates

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Bernard, Claude

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

11.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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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

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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

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Cowper, William

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Denham, Sir John

23.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Swinnock

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

Confucius

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Socrates

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.