Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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

Smiles, Samuel

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

11.

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 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

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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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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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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 only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

26.

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

Back, Sudie

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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

28.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Milton, John

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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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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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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Socrates

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.

47.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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