Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Confucius

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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.

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

10.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

Samuel Johnson

12.

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.

13.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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

Margaret Fuller

17.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

18.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

19.

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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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

22.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Saying

24.

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

Fink, David Harold

25.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Benchley, Robert

27.

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

Haskins, Caryl

28.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

29.

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)

30.

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

Caine, Mark

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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''

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

Bible

37.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Lao-tzu

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

44.

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

Traherne, Thomas