Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Morrison, Jim

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Einstein, Albert

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

19.

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

Socrates

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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)

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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

31.

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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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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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

40.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Swinnock

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Socrates