Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Michener, James A.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Morrison, Jim

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Margaret Fuller

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Addison, Joseph

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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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.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Smiles, Samuel

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart