Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Edison, Thomas A.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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

Ball, Lucille

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bernard, Claude

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

Miller, Henry

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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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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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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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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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Miller, Keith

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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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

29.

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

Socrates

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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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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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

Sterne, Laurence

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.