Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Who knows most believes least.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Miller, Keith

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

Socrates

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Morrison, Jim

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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Stevens, Ray

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Van Horne, William

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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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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Socrates

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Moliere

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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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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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille