Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

- Gurdjieff, George

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Confucius

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

Shakespeare, William

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)

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Epictetus

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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Smiles, Sydney

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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.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying

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

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Margaret Fuller

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Bible

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Richard Feynman

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Caine, Mark

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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 seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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