Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Addison, Joseph

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moliere

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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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Miller, Keith

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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

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

Starr, Lonny

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

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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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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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