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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

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

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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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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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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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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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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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Richard Feynman

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bernard, Claude

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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.