Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Miller, Henry

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

Confucius

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Penn, William

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

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

Smiles, Sydney

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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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 much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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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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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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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Degas, Edgar

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

30.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Pickering

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Socrates

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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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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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Addison, Joseph

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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