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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Hall, Bishop

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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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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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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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''