Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He who does not know one thing knows another

- Proverb, Kenyan

Best Quotes about Knowledge

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

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

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Lao-Tzu

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Ralph, Blum

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

Addison, Joseph

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Van Horne, William

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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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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Persian

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude