Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Benchley, Robert

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

11.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Starr, Lonny

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

Socrates

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

Churchill, Winston

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Traherne, Thomas

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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

Bright, Grant M.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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

Cowper, William

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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

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

Moliere

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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

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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.