Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Samuel Johnson

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Van Horne, William

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Swinnock

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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Billings, Josh

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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 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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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 process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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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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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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

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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.

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.