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

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

Billings, Josh

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Robert, Cavett

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kempis, Thomas

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Socrates

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

Addison, Joseph

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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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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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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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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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 of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.