Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Caine, Mark

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Epictetus

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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

11.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Margaret Fuller

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

22.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Bernard, Claude

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Swinnock