Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Degas, Edgar

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

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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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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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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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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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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.

19.

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

Socrates

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Markham, Beryl

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Manutius

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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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Moliere

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