Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Lao-Tzu

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Stevens, Ray

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Everett, Douglas

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Socrates

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

Morrison, Jim

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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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

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Bible

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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

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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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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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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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

Bernard, Claude

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Gibran, Kahlil