Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Markham, Beryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

10.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

11.

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

13.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

Caine, Mark

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Richard Feynman

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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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

28.

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

Bible

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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

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bernard, Claude

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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

34.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

35.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Billings, Josh

43.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Lao-tzu

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

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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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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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