Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Haskins, Caryl

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Socrates

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Enrico Fermi

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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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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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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Van Horne, William

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

43.

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

Bailey, Pearl