Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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

Miller, Keith

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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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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

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Degas, Edgar

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Bible

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Epictetus