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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Billings, Josh

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

12.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

17.

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

Caine, Mark

18.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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 is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Lao-tzu

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

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

44.

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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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Penn, William

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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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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

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Moliere