Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Sterne, Laurence

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.

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

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Samuel Johnson

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Epictetus

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Sophocles

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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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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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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Miller, Henry