Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Enrico Fermi

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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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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.

15.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Back, Sudie

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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Lao-tzu

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Morrison, Jim

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swinnock

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Persian

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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