Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Knowledge

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stevens, Ray

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

19.

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

Ralph, Blum

22.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

26.

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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

28.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Socrates

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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

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Socrates

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

40.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Addison, Joseph

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Proverb, Persian

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