Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Confucius

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

10.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

11.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

12.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Pickering

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

20.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

21.

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

Benchley, Robert

22.

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

23.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

24.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

25.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Szasz, Thomas

32.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

33.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Morrison, Jim

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Socrates

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

Socrates

42.

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

Back, Sudie

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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

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

Whitney, W. R.

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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

47.

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh