Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Benchley, Robert

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

15.

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

Bailey, Pearl

16.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

17.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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

19.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Addison, Joseph

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

23.

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

24.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

28.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

31.

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

Haskins, Caryl

32.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

35.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

36.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Billings, Josh

38.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

39.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

40.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Socrates

42.

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

43.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

45.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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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

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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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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.