Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Ralph, Blum

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Churchill, Winston

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Mueller, Robert K.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Miller, Keith

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

21.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Moliere

24.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Saying

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Swinnock

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

46.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

47.

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

Ball, Lucille

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.