Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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)

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

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

Epictetus

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

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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

13.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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

Castaneda, Carlos

15.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

23.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

26.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Margaret Fuller

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

32.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Miller, Keith

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

Confucius

39.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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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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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

46.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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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