Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Cowper, William

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Van Horne, William

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Miller, Henry

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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

Denham, Sir John

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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 knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Starr, Lonny

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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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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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

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

Bernard, Claude

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Saying

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

Epictetus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis