Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

- Richard Feynman

Best Quotes about Knowledge

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mansfield, Katherine

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Kuehler, Jack

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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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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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Saying

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.