Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Kennedy, John F.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph, Blum

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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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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Swinnock

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Van Horne, William

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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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.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh