Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Socrates

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Stevens, Ray

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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 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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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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Epictetus

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Moliere

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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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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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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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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Every animal knows more than you do.