Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Smiles, Sydney

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Manutius

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

11.

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

Degas, Edgar

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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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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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''

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Szasz, Thomas

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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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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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

28.

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

Bible

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Moliere

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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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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Starr, Lonny

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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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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Traherne, Thomas