Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Socrates

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

10.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

11.

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

Starr, Lonny

12.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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

15.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

16.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

17.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

19.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

20.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

21.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

22.

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

Back, Sudie

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

25.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Szasz, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

33.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

34.

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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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

42.

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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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

45.

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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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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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

49.

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

Benchley, Robert