Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Robbins, Anthony

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

11.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

12.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Epictetus

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

Bristol, Claude M.

34.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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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.

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

Socrates

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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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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.

40.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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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

42.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Mueller, Robert K.

44.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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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''

50.

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

Degas, Edgar