Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Miller, Keith

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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 becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Benchley, Robert

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Socrates

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Lao-tzu

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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 greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Degas, Edgar

30.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Confucius

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Starr, Lonny

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Epictetus

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad