Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Milton, John

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benchley, Robert

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ralph, Blum

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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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

20.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Cowper, William

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

27.

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

Proverb, Persian

28.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Moliere

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

Epictetus

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

41.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

43.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.