Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Knowledge

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Billings, Josh

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Richard Feynman

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

11.

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

Bernard, Claude

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Haskins, Caryl

16.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

19.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Saying

21.

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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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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

Enrico Fermi

25.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

26.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Proverb, Persian

28.

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

Degas, Edgar

29.

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

30.

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

31.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

32.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

33.

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

Milton, John

34.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

41.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Back, Sudie

49.

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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe