Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

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

Johnson, Samuel

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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

Starr, Lonny

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Kuehler, Jack

10.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

11.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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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

13.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

14.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

15.

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.

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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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 is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.

28.

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

Bernard, Claude

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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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 always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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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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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Fink, David Harold

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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