Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Fuller

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

14.

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

Lao-tzu

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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.

18.

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

Back, Sudie

19.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

21.

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

Richard Feynman

22.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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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.

26.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

27.

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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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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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

30.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

31.

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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

34.

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.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

41.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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